Word: triumphale
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...hospitable Brazilians rushed to completion two triumphal arches for their Argentine guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...board in Eliot House last year and spent the school year in Paris, studying these languages at the Sorbonne. He took four stiff courses, worked very hard, and returned with a report card of a B, two C's, and a D. On registration day he made a triumphal entry into the Dean's office to be welcomed home. But Mr. Hanford produced a musty statute about lowering the grades of exchange students. The year at the Sorbonne, hard work and all, netted...
...Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo's triumphal armada flight-he appeared in New York intent to the point of desperation on flying farther than any man had flown, all alone...
...Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...room in the apartment is a shrine. Its stained glass window shows the angelic likeness of a fair young woman dead now about two years. As the bride of Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring she lived barely a year, failed tt) see his triumphal emergence this spring as Premier of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) and the wild, popular acclaim which marks him wherever he goes throughout the Fatherland today as the No. 2 Nazi...