Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winning Joker. Novelist Malaquais' triumphant joker seems to come from a stacked deck when Pierre, le gaffeur, wins against the overwhelming odds of the City. His prescription, a sardonically simple one, is set forth in an epigraph from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre...
...Edinburgh, love was triumphant over the law, religion and an imperious father. No sooner were the banns published announcing the marriage of Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, and James
...Fresh Standout. In two rooms alone there were 19 Rembrandts. including a masterfully calm and triumphant self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard...
...behaved something like a schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...
...spanking new coat of paint slapped on to her white Victorian-gingerbread royal palace, oversaw daily rehearsals of the entertainment program, including the plaintive nose-fluting solos dear to the heart of every Tongan despite the fact that their music is limited to three notes. There were triumphant rustic arches, bearing the legend "I Love You" to be made for the royal route of march, tapa cloth banners to be cut and painted, pigs to be killed, pineapples to be picked and the Royal Tongan Military Band to be drilled...