Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poverty: (The speech's most eloquent passage): "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation...
Outside his business and his family, Publisher Block has few interests. On his 200-acre estate near Greenwich, Conn., he has a picturesque nine-hole golf course, but his game is indifferent. He once played 13 consecutive holes in fives. It was a triumph he has neither forgotten nor repeated. Occasionally, he rides one of his saddle horses. Occasionally, he takes a hand in running the estate, as this summer, when his gardeners reported that his lake was leaking. For the most part he leaves the house and grounds to his wife. He asks only that he can bring...
...Vendôme and, particularly, along that brief but important, severe but incredibly expensive street known as the Rue de la Paix. Crowds milled about sternly-guarded doorways; ultra-fashionable women sought admission as to the most coveted box at the Opera; Parisian celebrities entered with an air of triumph, emerged with subdued cries...
Louiseboulanger. To Louiseboulanger belongs the credit of discovering the secret of the down-in-the-back hemline. Primarily a dressmaker, rather than dress seller, she amuses herself by studying the personality of unusual women, then designing costumes to suit them. Her greatest triumph has been with the Actress Spinelly, whose frocks are an annual Parisian wonder...
...staying home. But her love of gayety got the better of her. She took her courage in her two hands and appeared at the ball. She half-expected to be the butt of jibes and ridicule. To her amazement she found herself the hit of the evening. Her triumph was so overwhelming that it aroused the jealousy of fair countesses and members of the social set who expended lavish sums on their toilettes for the evening. Journalists flocked about her, cabled abroad the news of her mauve hair. Next day pastel locks were the rage. Madame Charlotte liked hers...