Word: triumphant
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...Mary Hayden of Boston) had to buy her debut gown last year, is now in the bank-account class. She has moved from Manhattan's Harlem to musical West 57th Street. Besides singing with the four major symphony orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago), she made a triumphant concert return to Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall. But Dorothy Maynor is just...
...Italy, fortnight ago, roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft carrier and another cruiser, putting the Royal Navy to rout. Last week tits British Admiralty issued a different version, backed it up with firsthand accounts of the battle...
...exports to Japan; the strengthening of ties with Latin America, together with reports of increased aid to Great Britain. Such has been the characteristic pattern of U. S. foreign policy: defensive, gloomy, hesitant, and principally concerned with establishing the moral superiority of U. S. democracy in an age of triumphant aggression...
...through many sources, but also by photograph. I have no hesitation in saying that this process of bombing the military industries and communications of Germany . . . affords one, at least, of the surest, if not the shortest, of all the roads to victory. Even if the Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea, or indeed, upon the Caspian; even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home...
...Burke-Wads-worth Selective Training and Service Bill. By the simpler concepts of democracy, the bill should have rolled through Congress, garnering applause from its supporters. The opposite happened. The bill was stalled, hacked to the point of emasculation. Minority pressure was, for the moment at least, triumphant. This was neither new nor even out of the ordinary. What was extraordinary last week was the great, mal-assorted conglomeration of minorities against conscription; the extreme inaction of the thwarted majority, the silence or ineptitude of most of its supposed spokesmen, the misinformation or lack of information which was permitted...