Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Herald-Tribune-"Something akin to a triumph...
When Samuel Gompers set out for Mexico City (TIME, Dec. 1), he went to his death. But his way thither was a path of triumph. He, with honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, entrained for the 50-hour journey from El Paso, Tex., under military escort. At Mexico City, he and his fellows from the A. F. L. attended the Convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. In his capacity as President, he presided. He also attended the inauguration of President Calles, who piled honors upon him. Yet his honors came at a price...
...brilliantly did she play the part, so perfectly defined were her weaknesses and pathos, so irresistible her reading of the wistful lines that she swept the audience from its mental moorings. It is the opinion of these skeptics that to Miss Lord alone is due the thorough public triumph...
...real nature and the conventions, or masks, as Pirandello expresses it, which bind and hem in man's individuality. Pirandello in Italy, Shaw in England, and O'Neill in America have given voice to this nameless longing for new ideals and for a new life in which man shall triumph over an artificial standard of morality and social conventions...
...selected from the same elevens which might triumph over the CRIMSON'S team by several touchdowns...