Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheer & Perseverance. To top off his triumphant leap into the social whirl, quick-acting Sir Thomas, never a yachting fan, surprised everyone by issuing a transatlantic challenge for the America's Cup. During the next 30 years he combined yachting with business, raced five different Shamrocks against U.S. defenders, never won the cup. A year before Lipton's death in 1931, Comedian Will Rogers wrote a letter to the New York Times suggesting that "everybody send $1 apiece for a fund to buy a loving cup for Sir Thomas Lipton, bigger than the one he would have...
Paced by Britain's triumphant Labor Party, socialism the world over rose to a high-water mark in the immediate postwar years...
...same way with love. Observed Capp: "No lover is anything but disappointed, since the greatest of all disappointments is the final triumphant possession of the love one has dreamt of having. It's never as wonderful as your dreams . .. No confused, despondent lover ever saw a Chaplin picture who wasn't cheered up ... We knew that no girl would ever want him, and that emphasized the fact that some girl would or did want us . . ." Capp has improved on the old master: "I try to make a disappointed lover feel better by having Li'l Abner never...