Word: triumphant
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Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
...doing the music they are suited for, they are on a par with the best amateur choral societies in the Nation. As Dr. Koussevitzky unfolded his reading of this monumental seven section work, the voices surged and glowed from the opening, hushed "Blessed are they that mourn . . ." to the triumphant closing fugue, "Worthy art Thou to be praised...
...public concert which his socialite wife has promoted for him he digresses, in mid-concerto, into A Bicycle Built for Two. But at long last he climbs off his bicycle, finds himself, his genius, his proper mate (Miss Calvert) and, thanks to her promotional talents, plays a triumphant return concert...
...thought gave added zest to the diners as they pitched in to their $100-a-plate dinner. Over coffee and cigars, Gael Sullivan, the Democrats' national executive director, served up the main political fare. Said he: "In front of us today we have a leader-tested and triumphant. He is ... confident because of the people's confidence . . . eager to see and do the right because his, hopes have an abiding kinship with the people's hopes...
...years from now, according to Leo's simple philosophy, the public would only remember who won and who lost. So that was all right. Said the triumphant bridegroom: "My God, I came west to play golf and I end up with a wife and three kids...