Word: triumphalism
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...Harvard University tennis team continued its triumphal march yesterday by blanking the M. I. T. netmen on the Divinity Courts 9 to 0. This makes the ninth victory for the Harvard aggregation and the third consecutive time that the Crimson players have whitewashed the opposing team...
Even this triumphal moment, I.T.&T.'s first taste of pomp, failed to draw Brother Sosthenes from his silence. As always, he met eager interviewers with his invariable statement: "It is not I, but the company...
Equally frigid and correct are the relations of "Tiger" Clemenceau with the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine," M. Raymond Poincaré−now Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied...
...like?who believe that any man who can take Shakespeare seriously must be full of stuff and bombast. Whatever the case, Actor Hampden would be the last to worry about it one way or another, and last week found him proceeding comfortably into the third month of his second triumphal revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, with his own company, under his own direction, in his own theatre...
...great "Triumphal Car" by Durer, dated 1522, was one of the woodcuts planned by the Emperor Maximilian to glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...