Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one soothing note was struck: the assertion that Germany's "will to enter the League alone," as epitomized in the inflexible person of her President, must triumph. As youthful Germans crowded about their parents to know the meaning of all these developments, there was told to them again the plenipotent legend of Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und Hindenburg...
...returned from this world triumph to find that his notoriously fickle countrymen had turned against him in his absence. Ungrateful, they voted him from power...
...left-handed arguments as these, M. Briand championed the peaceful "spirit of Locarno" in words sufficiently warlike for slight mollification of the Poincaréists. Finally he delivered a peroration in which he quite bluntly demanded co-operation from everyone. As expected, the ensuing vote was little short of a triumph: 413 for; 71 against; and only an odd 100 abstentions...
...Freudian shows early in this tale of triumph, for the opening paragraph opens as follows. "When Bobbie Keaton came to Harvard, he dreamt nightly of a little gold football decorated with a crimson "H". The three things which Bobbie particularly liked were Audrey Parker, football, and a much used grimy pipe." Here, gentlemen, is also revealed, though I might let you guess--the eternal triangle. Evidently longevity is promised Audrey as well as football. But such minor errors cannot blot the heroic vigor of the plot structure. That Bobbie did not bother with the freshman team matters very little. Revere...
...cares for melody and expressiveness of phrase, the Haydn Symphony to be played tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock will be irresistible. It was this symphony which marked the end of Haydn's stay in England; after it was played at the Hanover Square Rooms, his triumph was complete. M. Koussevitzky will please the lover of rhythm, and of another century too, tonight, when he conducts the "Pini Di Roma" of Respighi. I shall Union. It has always been my opinion that the Everest climbers were our modern seekers for the Holy Grail,--surely there is a gallantry...