Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid the brewery again, no evidence is left. What! No Beer? is certainly an incentive to lawlessness but it can be considered a triumph of comic invention only by the most ardent Keaton & Durante enthusiasts...
...condition of single blessedness in order that the Middle Western husband may be relieved of his unloving wife, who is one of Mr. Perkins' none too restrained admirers. In the end, the situation is saved through the brilliance of Miss Bates; and it is delicious to observe the triumph of evil pleasantry over calm resolution, because the calm resolution gives way to consternation, and the evil pleasantry retains its philosophic if not obvious, calm...
...young Captain Araki buckled on his heavy Samurai sword, set off to fight Russia with the First Infantry Brigade and fairly crowed with triumph when Japan captured Port Arthur and Southern Manchuria a second time, taking over Russia's "lease" and also the southern half of Russia's oil-rich island Sakhalin...
...Africa by a circuitous route. It took Stanley two years, cost him 23 bouts of tropical fever, cost Bennett a pretty penny, but Stanley got his man. Every continent chuckled over his famed greeting. Said Stanley: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone refused to be taken home in newspaper triumph, preferred to stay in Africa, but he gave Stanley letters to prove his feat...