Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with...
Into booming, industrial São Paulo poured Japs by the hundred. Members of Brazil's huge (260,000) Japanese colony, they had sold their rice paddies and cotton fields, had come to the city to celebrate the triumphant arrival of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Henchmen of mysterious, begoggled Toyojito Sugai handed them Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor and news bulletins which announced: "Americans defeated in 15-minute naval battle; 400 U.S. ships sunk...
Annalee Jacoby, packing her belongings at the Press Hostel in Chungking to follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
...million-odd citizens of agricultural Paraguay have taken great pride in their Army. Trained by a French mission, it had thrashed Bolivia (pop. about 3,000,000) in the bloody three-year Chaco war beginning in 1932 had come home to barracks a triumphant fighting force. But by this week some Paraguayans were taking a different view of their soldiers: they were eating the country out of house & home...