Word: triumphalism
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Four months ago the curtain came down on the grand finale of the triumphal history of Franklin Roosevelt, Part I-as he took his bows amid the plaudits of supporters in the hour of his victorious reelection. Last week the curtain fell on Scene I, Act I in Part II of his History...
...shifty looking automobile slithered up to the curve beside us. It was the kind of a car that proves that she doesn't drive a Dusenberg because she had a chauffeur, a footman, and a lapdog to drive it for her. With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review, to an open elevator shaft nearby, that projected from the basement to the sidewalk...
...There followed another official luncheon at which Dr. Terra praised his own New Deal in Uruguay and then, with Latin preoccupation with domesticity, declared: "I raise my glass in a toast to Mrs. Roosevelt, whom I see in my mind, following day by day and with increasing emotion, your triumphal journey to these friendly republics: To the companion of your days, a kindly and generous woman." Franklin Roosevelt made suitable reply and after another bear hug boarded the Indianapolis...
...Your question, it deals with an institution, an institution of learning, a college!" He uttered the word "college" in a triumphal stage whisper, as if pleased to discover that the parietal rule did not deal with an Old Folks Home. Continuing, "This has to do with a regulation of the college . . . in connection with women. . . . Hm. But it will only work to disadvantage. They will abolish it. It is imperative...
Just before leaving Hyde Park for his triumphal return to Washington (see p. 23), President Roosevelt sent his Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre and two automobiles to nearby Poughkeepsie to meet a special train arriving from Manhattan. Off the train stepped Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Auxiliary Bishops Francis J. Spellman of Boston and Stephen J. Donahue of New York, the Cardinal Secretary's gentleman-in-waiting, Enrico Galeazzo, and two Catholic New Dealers, Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank C. Walker, with their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief...