Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jekyll came to Central Square last Friday night, after a triumphant tour of Codman Square, Watertown, and Chelsea theatres. Posters urging, "Shudder! Thrill! See this crazy mixed-up horror show! Grab girls in the audience!" had attracted a full house of ghost lovers...
...down the bronze statue atop the newspaper's building and hacked it into pieces. Symbolically, the statue was a woman representing truth, with a torch in one hand and La Prensa in the other. Last week the arm bearing the torch was unveiled in the building at a triumphant ceremony restoring the plant to Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz. "We return to our house," he told almost 2,000 loyal ex-staffers and friends...
Scholar's Prince. What called Fra Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
...paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree, was "one of the most implacable persecutions" of the dictatorship. Hours later Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, 56, the paper's longtime editor and publisher, ended his exile in Manhattan and flew to Buenos Aires for a triumphant homecoming...
...line with this approach the Council last week voted soccer a major sport, after the team had raised its letter requirements and had finished a triumphant season. At its next meeting, the Council will pass on cross country. To gain consideration, however, the cross country team should not have to rely merely on publicity via walkie-talkie. Cross country demands just a much athletic effort as any major sport, yet remains minor by official edict. Since cross country's standards for letter awards are already high, the Council should end this inconsistency and raise it to major status...