Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story The Failure, related with notable economy, his brief, triumphant biography provides Edward Ellis with a character actor's dream of a fat part. In it he gives a beautifully sustained, low-keyed characterization which, while probably not showy enough to get him an Academy Award, rates as one of Hollywood's outstanding performances of the year...
...winning two of its remaining three games the Crimson will at least be assured of a first place tie, even if Dartmouth is triumphant in all of its final three encounters. In the meantime the Varsity is meeting non-circuit opposition two or three times a week in preparation for the concluding league push beginning with Dartmouth on June 18 and the Elis on June...
...Triumphant over the Eli riders last week at Myopia by an 8-6 margin, the Crimson polo team will tomorrow face the hardriding Army Cadets at West Point in the second game of the spring season. The Varsity riders in tomorrow's encounter will be Skiddy von Stade, Ben Forbes, and Gay Dillingham...
...Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...
While Representative Fish was speaking at Sanders Theatre, Bernard entered with two real reds--they were Indians. The Minnesota iron miner, who changed into an impassioned representative of the people, expressed his satisfaction with his own triumphant entry. "I have never listened to a speech by Hamilton Fish without hearing the word Communism," he said...