Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of Professor Baker is a triumph." Yale Daily News...
...Everyone he meets commiserates the general misfortune, and his spirits are bound to rise in response to such universal sympathy. Not so the graduate. At the club, in the office, on the street, friend Smith from Yale, and Jones from Princeton and even Brown from some small Western college, triumph over him. They tease him, they heap ridicule upon him, and all in all, make his life miserable. Small wonder that his ago takes refuge in complaint against the innocent cause of his humiliation...
...Chicago, too, a conductor was the hero of the premiere. The presentation of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's opera, was a triumph not alone for the ever-popular Rosa Raisa in the title role, but chiefly for Giorgio Polacco, orchestral alchemist, who turned the good showmanship and occasionally melodiously inspirational score of Ponchielli's ponderous work into the semblance of a piece of true art. His genius not only led him to underscore the dramatic situations which are the opera's chief virtue, but to give rare opportunity to the singers themselves, chorus and principals, to make...
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
...Harvard eleven needed a victory Saturday. The psychological effect of a decisive triumph would have been tremendous. That triumph was not forthcoming. Individually the players gave their best, and in certain departments the improvement was striking. Nevertheless the team lost...