Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smallest village, the plainest home, give ample space for the resources of the college trained woman." It was Alice Freeman Palmer, star leader in the advancement of highest education for women, who put in these words the philosophy that guided her life from its humble beginning to its triumphant conclusion...
...avenge the 9 to 0 shut out of last year. Sawyer, the Exeter twirler who did not allow a single Crimson player to reach third base last year, will again be on the mound. McPhail, the left fielder, is also a veteran of last year but four of the triumphant nine are now playing with the Harvard 1927 team...
...days of Dickens' visit to America-his final arrival in Manhattan, "replete with New England dinners"-the wonderful Boz ball, in his honor, acclaimed "the greatest affair in modern times." His triumphant entrance and forced march (unhappy man!) around the hall, preceded by the Mayor and Mayoress and the "perspiring City Fathers" and followed by the entire assemblage which fell in behind, "whooping and cheering like a Sunday School class at a picnic"-and then, the ungrateful wretch returning to England and writing his dreadful American Notes...
...longer a game, it is no longer even a dangerous game in which strength and skill of individuals, of staffs, even of armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...
...absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...