Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman quintet played a tie game with the Cushing aggregation up until the end of the third quarter, then the heavy team from Cushing succeeded in scoring four field goals and one goal from a foul and emerged from the game triumphant...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
...greater service could be done the cause of Harvard in the regions in question than was accomplished by the Instrumental Club on their triumphant progress through the Middle West and South. Playing in many cities where there is an unquestionably strong feeling against Harvard, the clubs received enthusiastic applause at every concert, and the warmest welcome at the innumerable teas and dances they attended. Particulary were the men congratulated by the members of struggling Harvard Clubs, and thanked for the assistance so strongly given in the task of breaking down the popular attitude toward the University...
After three days of spirited but chiefly decorative debate, the House of Lords voted 241 to 88 its sweeping approval of the Alternative Prayer Book. Triumphant, the Primate of All England and other Lords Spiritual moved over to the gallery of the House of Commons. Although they could not address its members, their three-to-one victory in the Lords was surely a straw vote of promising import...
...November 27, 1911 there was a riot at a Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported from Dublin, was no sedative...