Word: triumphalism
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...came glowing descriptions of the triumphal march through Italy of Hearst Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer with many an Italian official bowing & scraping before him. Reason: on his passport, where the ordinary person places the name of his nearest relative to be notified "in case of death or accident," Funnyman Baer had written: "President F. D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington...
With the passing of time Drummer Krupa's frenzied battering and occasional syncopated solos became principal features of every Goodman performance. Jiggling jitterbugs hung on every drumbeat; some partisans found Krupa the sugar in the Goodman coffee. Last winter, following Goodman's triumphal appearances in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME. Jan. 24) and elsewhere. Drummer Krupa decided that he was too important a figure to thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City...
...working norm, Arthur Mumford finds that the next age transformed the city impressively but to no great purpose, began its degradation through overcrowding. Serving a centralized State, baroque architects cut through the capital city with long, expensive radiating avenues for the king's triumphal parades, built palaces for him and barracks for the new institution of the standing army. The new institution of the proletariat they lodged in the first tenements, built over the medieval garden spaces. Sanitation fell behind as congestion increased. Yet in this age of luxury and disease two admirable forms arose: the scrubbed Dutch town...
Passing under a triumphal arch of bamboo resembling Noah's Ark, he entered a bamboo palisade. There he spent the day squatting upon matting with acres of other squatting Congressmen. Most of the speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home...
...years ago Germany's Count Hermann Keyserling made a triumphal tour of the U. S., buoyed up by his best-selling Travel Diary of a Philosopher, fees reaching as high as $1,000 a lecture, and praise such as Glenn Frank's: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist of a new Western civilization." On that trip hostesses received printed instructions on how to entertain the worldly prophet: 1) rooms should be cool; 2) a supper should be served after each lecture; 3) champagne should be provided; 4) oysters should be served, but no vegetables...