Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of the five royal courts of the season, and first that rheumatic George V was well enough to attend, occurred last week at Buckingham Palace. Of all the debutantes to make their curtseys, the most triumphant was Margaret Henriette McReynolds of Tennessee, daughter of U. S. Conference Delegate Sam McReynolds. Because it is obviously impossible to receive all the ladies attached to all the delegations the Lord Chamberlain's office announced that none of the ladies of the World Economic Conference would be presented. But Miss McReynolds had already received her "command" to attend. She had bought...
...people might intone a majestic Kyrie Eleison and then the Gloria which angels sang at Christ's birth. Just before the priest consecrates the Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts," recalling Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And at the great moment of communion with the Body and Blood of Christ, the congregation may sing in supplication, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis: "Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy...
...resentment of famed oldtime flyers at such tactics is illustrated by an incident following Flyer Balbo's triumphant return from South America in 1931. Having been publicly lionized he presented himself at the door of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Italy's air hero of the War, who lost his right eye in combat and was called "II Duce'' before Mussolini. D'Annunzio coldly refused to see Balbo. Afterward his friends asked: ''Why do you snub him? After all he is 'The Eagle.'" Snorted D'Annunzio: "Eagle? . . . Peacock...
Sometimes the masculine author of this masculine book speaks in propria persona: "Historically the increasing dominance of woman is marked by emotionalism and revolution, romanticism, feminism triumphant, hysteria. The end is either a return to the balance, a reaction where the man reasserts his authority in the family, or anarchy. The paternal state, which tries to be Our-father-which-art-on-earth, is always accompanied by the loss of the subtle qualities of fatherhood in individual men. When patriotism becomes matriotism, nature and force reassert themselves in human affairs. Sympathy has been mistaken for the truth...
...list his deeds. But strangely unwilling to go the whole way and make a rich panegyric he soon attempts to make a "debit-entry" for Mr. Lowell. The first entry is hazy enough, and probably means that President Lowell has had no part in the triumphant rise of a great Business School and a great Fogg Art Museum. But elsewhere we are told that Lowell is Harvard's dictator . . . and well there stands Fogg and there the Business School. President Lowell, the author shows has left the Dental School pretty much alone...