Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suitors. The hero meets a stranger and rescues his child from drowning (or from a mad dog or a runaway horse). The stranger turns out to be a rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest. On his triumphant return, the merchant adopts him as a son or ward, discomfits the wicked suitor and settles a little fortune on the hero. Moralists used to complain that this fortune was gained by pure luck. On the contrary, it was gained by the hero's discovery of the place...
...cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender. He merely nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting to sail to Sardinia with the Second Grenadier Regiment when Badoglio surrendered...
Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...
...Argentine Government, however triumphant abroad, had trouble at home. Bursting from long repression, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional three minor acts of the Government. If the Court's decision stood and set a precedent, the military regime (no lover of constitutions) might fall or be forced to change its character. Argentines seemed to hope so. Twenty thousand packing-plant workers went on strike. Dock workers struck, demanding release of political prisoners. Nearly 500 Buenos Aires lawyers gathered around the Palace of Justice to cheer the Court's resurgence...