Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Day. The Red radio broadcast detailed accounts of the first day's conference, triumphant in tone, while the U.N. kept mum and allied newsmen, barred from Kaesong, had almost nothing to report to the world. Five civilian newsreel and newspaper photographers slipped past the Communist roadblocks on the ground that they were "accredited to the U.S. Army," reported some details of the Communists' highhanded behavior in the Kaesong area. Chinese troops lined the roads, bristling not only with burp guns but also with captured U.S. carbines and British Sten guns...
...Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band struck up The Eyes of Texas, and the head waiter strode up to give them a hearty, if overly triumphant welcome...
...story picks up Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, follows him to America and on his triumphant return to Spain. But another voyage brings disillusionment; his crewmen abuse the confidence of the Indians and quarrel over their loot. Columbus himself is finally brought back to Spain in chains-to die with the belated realization that justice and reason are more precious than silver and gold. Best things in Egk's score: a clear song line, dramatic choruses and an effective handling of Spanish and Indian folk tunes...
...TRIUMPHANT CLAY (252 pp.)-Rupert Hughes-House-Warven...
...everyone will be so easily impressed. In The Triumphant Clay, Rupert Hughes-who has written more than a score of popular novels and a three-volume biography of Washington-has hurled at his public a great soft pie of semipornographic muck...