Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will end a cycle of 32 years. It began in 1895, when young Congressman Underwood went to Washington. In 1910, when the Democrats, following the fight over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, emerged triumphant in the congressional elections, Mr. Underwood, a seasoned legislator of 15 years' experience, emerged as the majority leader. There followed the Underwood tariff. There followed a bitter fight between Underwood and Bryan in which Underwood came out the victor. There followed a Democratic convention in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for President and Oscar W. Underwood, had he not refused it, might have...
...whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...
...automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record as a 100% Utopia for the wealthy has been preserved intact...
...Rainbow Trail. Tom Mix, just returned from a triumphant tour of Europe, thunders across one more stretch of prairie in The Rainbow Trail and indicates once more why he is one of the highest salaried actors in the world. He is brave, handsome, picturesque, honorable. He kills Indians, saves a noble white girl. The cowboy is about the only ancient chivalry we have. Mr. Mix is the cardinal cowboy...
Then, at the end of the race when whistles are blowing and crowds cheering, eight Harvard oarsmen may rest triumphant at the finish until they have caught eight blue-trimmed rowing shirts, thrown to them across the water by the Yale crew...