Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Brewster's Millions" is an excellent picture. It is a triumph. And the man with the pedestrian protector is a hero. They are all heroes--except Bebe. She is a heroine--and if you know of a better heroine--The Lamb's Club--well, she is rather amusing--quite amusing. But one doesn't go to the Lambs' Club. "Miss Brewster's Millions" is most entertaining...
...instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights and a howling siren. A poet's art is applied to mechanism...
...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...
With the performance of the Brahms' Requiem yesterday afternoon, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society have added another triumph to their already long series of successes. Under the direction of M. Koussevitsky, the 300 singers and picked members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave a rendition of the Requiem which compares most favorably with the performance last year, and may well serve as a mark toward which to aim in the future...
...journals, it appears to be a public relishing news of a domestic nature, editorials couched in simple sentences and expressing the precepts of simpletons, and, above all, pictures illustrating stories of comprehensible disgrace or honor. It finds equal and not different attraction in moral turpitude and mundano triumph; on the one hand, robberv murder, and divorce; on the other, limerick contests, daring rescues, and political coups...