Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary day some 900,000 Texas Democrats, deeply stirred by the campaign, went to the polls, cast a record vote which nominated Candidate Sterling by a majority of almost 100,000. The entire big-city press of Texas agreed with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor on a southeast Texas farm, Nominee Sterling could not read or write until he was 21. From freight boat boy, he rose...
...bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade winds infor- mally up & down wooded slope and dale. In the evening the campfires glow and a pageant is enacted. Always there has been a midnight costume ball but this year it was called off to placate (and fill with triumph) the townsmen. As the night wears on, tippling, done at first covertly, becomes rowdy. In the cold light of morning the sun rises on dead ashes and a dwindling Woodstock. Art's autumnal migration back to the city is underway...
...motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium of entertainment and in presenting the drama of life does not knowingly misrepresent American life, as your correspondent charges, any more than the newspapers in printing the news of everyday life...
...Lindbergh apparently had won, could gloat over the predicament of the papers he had long craved to chastise. But his triumph did not live long. Newsmen have devices with which he had not reckoned...
...tradition, showed how to employ the raging breast, the flowery metaphor and the torrential expletive while remaining perfectly correct and sleek: "Pan-Americanism, fruit of an ambitious dream! . . . one which only in idealism could be called excessive . . . Pan-Americanism . . . fought against the obstacles which were strewn in its way, triumphed over them even as faith and beauty must always triumph...