Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first thanked his host and honorers with deep sincerity. He gave them two of his memories of Woodrow Wilson-triumphant Wilson in London, 1918; sick but dauntless Wilson in Washington, 1923. Then he embarked upon a narration of the history of the League of Nations idea and a catalog, inter alia, of the chief international disputes with which the League has dealt...
Thus ex-Premier Zogu, who was once ousted by the popular Bishop Noli (TIME, June 23), returned triumphant to his native soil, became Premier once more. In the capital, Tirana, he was received with loud cheers...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union in national convention at Chicago comes out strongly in favor of the "great American uplift." Since Volstead, this triumphant organization has taken the whole field of public morals for its own. There is not a crime, from smoking of "the foul and filthy weed" to the waging of war, which it does not now consider its legitimate "meat...
...book is about as notable a piece of work as the autumn has produced. Mr. O'Higgins' style is eminently readable, his vision penetrating. He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity. His portrait of Julie is no less a finished study of a strange and intriguing personality...
...been supposed that the Metropolitan would choose for its opening Fedora, Maria Jeritza's latest triumphant impersonation. But Signer Gatti-Casazza, shrewd impressario, had planned otherwise. Verdi, well-tried veteran, was called into service and Aida was the safe and sane choice, with a familiar safe and sane cast. There was no Caruso, no Farrar, no Jeritza. There was instead a new conductor, one Tullio Serafin, carefully discriminating and strangely energetic after the somnolent Mr. Moranzoni...