Word: triumphant
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...case with most advanced men, Mr. Shaw is not quite able to believe that the world has caught up with him. His one American speech was devoted to a triumphant exposition of the cross purposes at which finance works--a misfortune of which his hearers were already very painfully aware. A slight flutter was raised when the speaker dryly complimented the American people as the saviours of Russia, or the saviours of communism, and then pointed out that our "natural political science" thus bulwarked our own capitalistic monopoly. But in the main, those who merely wait another manifestation...
...Southern California Wampus takes pleasure in joining hands with TIME in an inspired triumphant march toward concise, accurate detail in magazine editing, by submitting for your consideration the enclosed January and February Wampus tear sheets...
...same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
...Lausanne agreement last summer came as a triumphant challenge to the defeatist attitude in regard to international conferences which had resulted from many previous failures. It is still true, however, that unless some substantial measure of agreement is arrived at beforehand, they tend to degenerate into battle-grounds of conflicting national biases...
...United States coming from California was a monster. If Mr. Hearst represented the ideals and the character of California, he would have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were set up, just as they had been one triumphant evening in 1928. On that occasion the happy guests and their gravely exalted host had watched the electoral votes of the nation pile up, up, up into the most colossal majority ever polled by a President-elect-444 for Hoover & Curtis to 87 for Smith &; Robinson. Now many of the same guests...