Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emerge Triumphant...
Harvard's basketball team won its first League victory in two years Saturday night, beating Cornell 23-17 at the New Indoor Athletic Building. Not only did the Crimson emerge triumphant, but it was Captain Dick Boys, who after two years of steady losses, was Harvard's Moses who led his men to a sensational second-half victory...
...clouds, rocks, and sea--which are rivalled only by Eisenstch. Clouds, rocks, and sea--but mostly sea, calm, seemingly docile but cunning, the willing food-source for the Man of Aran--or roaring, raging, scaling cliffs, reaching out to engulf the whole of that small island--and finally, sea triumphant, mockingly destroying the puny efforts of man to thwart...
...done well selling building materials, took over the Post Office Department last year he announced in his quiet way that he was going to show the nation how its "largest single business" should be run. Last July the Postmaster General radioed to President Roosevelt aboard the Houston a triumphant vindication of his boast: "I have the honor to inform you that pre-audited figures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, show, after making the usual adjustments authorized by law for certain subventions and free mailing services, that our postal receipts exceeded expenditures for the first time since...
...first picture since Queen Christina, Greta Garbo gives a triumphant performance. As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine. Richard Boleslavski's direction is slow but sure; the picture gathers power steadily toward the finish. Its only thoroughly weak spot is a Chinese festival staged by Chester Hale to lend "production value"-a sequence which looks as if it had just finished an engagement at the Winter Garden. Good shot: Greta Garbo at dinner wondering how much her husband knows...