Word: triumphant
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Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...
...Argentine Government, however triumphant abroad, had trouble at home. Bursting from long repression, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional three minor acts of the Government. If the Court's decision stood and set a precedent, the military regime (no lover of constitutions) might fall or be forced to change its character. Argentines seemed to hope so. Twenty thousand packing-plant workers went on strike. Dock workers struck, demanding release of political prisoners. Nearly 500 Buenos Aires lawyers gathered around the Palace of Justice to cheer the Court's resurgence...
Underground. Whether or not there were to be heroics on high, it was clear that there was to be Naziism underground. Allied officials said they had solid evidence of a Nazi plan to carry on from secret arsenals and secret cells until the Allied coalition split and a new, triumphant Reich could arise. Other sources added details...
Occupation Masterpiece. Remarkably enough, the French cinema industry never really went under during the Occupation until, in May 1944, Allied bombings forced the Germans to shut off its light and power. Still more remarkably, several of the films produced during the Occupation represent a triumphant defense of national style and integrity, as U.S. cinemaddicts will probably soon have a chance to see. But it is still uncertain how soon, or in what form, the most notable of these films, Les Enfants du Paradis, will reach...