Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager...
With Rudy Vallee and his 38-piece ensemble striking the key note in a triumphal rendering of the "Stein Song," the annual Freshman Smoker took place in the Union last night under the direction of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr, and his 1938 committeemen...
...triumphal progress around Greenland's coasts Minister Owen stood as godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried...
Admirably acted, carefully produced and for the most part intelligently and honestly written, Awake and Sing! seems to have unexpectedly backfired on Playwright Odets. His triumphal ending, with Brother Ralph profiting by Grandfather's insurance and Sister Hennie and Axelrod running away to Bermuda on his pension, depends ironically on two prime financial usufructs of the economic system which Playwright Odets has spent two hours browbeating...
Nevertheless, Paris remained. The futility of its resistance simply emphasizes the heroism of the defenders. For four months the city underwent a continual bombardment. Thiers and Gambetta, balloon ascensions across the Prussian lines, the relief army from the South, the National Guard, and the final triumphal entry of the besiegers, followed by the proclamation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles of the German Empire--the whole is a fantasy worthy of the Arabian Nights, with a note of tragedy added...