Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the first financial scandal burst in 1892 De Lesseps was convicted of misappropriating money. Fifty million pounds sterling had vanished. Sentence was later remitted because he had only too sanguinely desired to repeat the triumph he had achieved for France in building the Suez Canal in Egypt...
...Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know how to lower the boats. In the high towers of Manhattan people lay listening to the sad horns, like hounds, belling a far-away triumph...
...present Harvard Stadium was completed and the Crimson athletic officials decided that a Dartmouth football game would be a fitting baptism for the new arena. The Big Green accordingly made its annual trip to Cambridge, dedicated the new Stadium, and incidentally carried off its first gridiron triumph over a Harvard team by an 11 to 0 score. The Dartmouth team in this encounter was described as unusually heavy, the line averaging 220 pounds to the man from tackle to tackle. One of the conspicuous performers for the Crimson on that occasion was John Parkinson '05, who played center and whose...
...Petruchio, Katharine, Grumio, Hortensio, and the rest become more human than ever. Mr. Leiber as Petruchio is perfect. He carries the necessary bragadaccio to just the proper point, and as he strides about horse-whip in hand inflicting his will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts...
...worst, such as: "I've just learned that that distinguished bookworm, Mr. Gene Tunney, reads my stuff, so now I am moved more strongly than ever to predict that, in the event of a third meeting between him and Mr. Dempsey, the result will be another triumph for clean literature...