Word: triumphale
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...triumphal procession moved through downtown Boston, finally reached the Charles River Esplanade, where 30,000 people roared themselves hoarse as Governor Maurice J. Tobin compared General Patton to Washington, Sheridan, Grant, Forrest and Stonewall Jackson...
...Poet, Too. As "Pop," he went off to Hamilton, Mass., to spend the night with his family. But the triumphal tour had just begun. Next day, after an eleven-and-a-half-hour plane flight, he arrived in Denver. Happily profane, he rattled off a stream of characteristic Pattonisms. Sample: he classed himself a "better poet than general." As his plane rolled into its takeoff, Los Angeles bound, he found his hotel key in his pocket, chucked it out, yelling to those on the ground to return...
...Gare d'Orsay reception center, a bas-relief of women with arms flung wide illustrates the legend Salut les copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
After victory over the enemy, my violin will sound as if new, and I hope to thank you again . . . with my art in the triumphal days...
...consistency with which he has stoned, crucified, burned at the stake and otherwise rid himself of those who consecrated their lives to his further comfort and well-being so that all his strength and cunning might be preserved for the erection of ever larger monuments, memorial shafts, triumphal arches, pyramids and obelisks to the eternal glory of generals on horseback, tyrants, usurpers, dictators, politicians, and other heroes -who led him, usually from the rear, to dismemberment and death...