Word: triumphalism
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...moved to the Aretaieon Clinic pending the arrival of complete documents from the U. S. He may well have recalled that the day of his arrest was the third anniversary of that glamorous night when his greatest public work, the new Chicago Civic Opera building, was opened to the triumphal overture from Aida...
...docile disposition mislead some people. She is smart. She works hard on her music although her natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...
...every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India while his sponsor, a retired bookseller named Malcolm Schloss, began making plans for a triumphal reentry. Meher Baba, said Sponsor Schloss, would bring to the U. S. an "infinite state." In July he would break his silence with an internationally broadcast talk. What Meher Baba did was eat, play ping pong and cricket with his followers, many of them socialites, at Harmon. Still keeping...
...Lauri. This well-born Roman prelate, an oldtime lecturer in Rome's College of the Propaganda, successor of Achille Cardinal Ratti (now Pope Pius XI) as Nuncio to Warsaw, is to arrive in Dublin this week. The city has conferred on him its Honorary Freedom, set up a triumphal arch with two 46-ft. towers under which he is to pass in entering. Unlike such Irish cities as Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, Dublin no longer dresses its Corporation in fancy gear. But to meet Cardinal Lauri a special touch was necessary, so the Corporation planned to greet...
...holiday crowds at the Hoboken ferry. So good was the result that fat Tommy Nast was promptly hired?at $4 a week. Constant difficulty in collecting even this salary caused him to leave Leslie's Weekly. The New York Illustrated News sent him to Italy to follow the triumphal advance of red-shirted Giuseppe Garibaldi up the peninsula. From this almost bloodless war he sent bales of drawings very much like those his great contemporary, Constantin Guys, was doing for the London Illustrated News. When he returned to the U. S. in 1861, 20-year-old "Roly Poly" Nast...