Word: triumphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity...
...succeeded in accomplishing a somewhat greater feat than even the silver cup donated to it would lead one to imagine. Last year the Choate schoolboys were commended for their publication of a sheet intrinsically sound in editorial policy, makeup and general appearance. In view of their repeating the former triumph mere laudatory comment is superfluous. If the editors of the Choate News were to he congratulated on an excellent newspaper last year, they deserve even greater praise for having maintained their high standard and repeated a performance which, as their rivals and judges at least know, requires mental and physical...
With the opulent triumph of their game in the field of college sports, one is allowed to suspect that the American Football Coaches' Association has become somewhat smugly arrogant. "There is still plenty of room for the development of football," said Major John L. Griffln at the annual banquet of the association arguing from the increase in college population and the abundance of money. And he went on to assert that "even if football were not fun, it would be worthwhile as a check on the danger of the growth of America becoming weak and fiabby...
Western ways prevailed on a San Francisco gridiron as the allstar Eastern team lost loosely to Pacific players in the name of Christmas charity. To be sure, the triumph of Far Western football was slightly alloyed by the potent presence in their line-up of Joel Hunt from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...
Isadora Duncan was one of those people upon whom life showers a fountain of adventurous fire. In her native U. S., when she sang the Marseillaise and did a classic dance, she was a triumph equally in Manhattan and in the dusty villages of the West. In Europe she attained a high degree of notoriety by refusing to become the mistress of famed Gabriel d'Annunzio; but despite her dislike, frequently made manifest, for the convention of marriage, she permitted herself to be wedded by noted Russian Poet Sergei Yessenin. Their marriage was as brief as a liaison...