Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steeplechase water jump that produces five minutes of frustration-comedy as screamingly funny as a good Chaplin sequence. Horse after horse plops its resplendent rider into the drink, then surfaces with a burst of triumphant horse-laughter...
...Triumphant Hour (Sun. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). Father Patrick Peyton's big Easter program, with 17 stars...
Jimmy picked it up, beamed, and blew a triumphant blast. The new contract had its compensations. It assures his musicians their present jobs at their present handsome wages for three long years, and gives them a chance for additional ones on television...
...Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat, glistening on his brow...
...crowds kept surging through Prague. They were dazed. The loudspeaker system installed by the Germans blared martial airs and Communist communiqués from every streetcorner. A snatch of music or a few glibly triumphant phrases would suddenly hit people as reminders of the thing that had just happened, so quickly that they still could not grasp it. Men wept convulsively and uncontrollably...