Word: triumphal
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...moment allowing his day to be spoiled, Mr. Zukor rode with Mrs. Zukor beamingly beneath a triumphal arch, down a quaint main street, finally reached the synagog. "Welcome, welcome, Mr. Zukor," cried the Mayor of Ricse, and added somewhat redundantly, "We hail you as the greatest citizen of our village!" ( He is in fact the world's foremost cinema executive, president of Paramount-Famous-Lasky...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...
...Four more are necessary before the one hundred and fifty miles are completed and general civil disobedience can be inaugurated by the manufacture of salt in defiance of the British monopoly. The path of the leader and the seventy-eight faithful does not lack cheers, flowers, triumphal arches...
...Citizens remember how Rose Rosenberg landed in New York last fall amid salutes, sirens, cheers and a blizzard of ticker tape; how she went by special train to Washington and was received at the White House; how she moved in a triumphal pageant through Canada and finally sailed for home and England with James Ramsay MacDonald whose hard-slaving private secretary...
...declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...