Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
...were supposed to have been secret, but its proceedings leaked out in such detail that everyone who knows the cunning Finance Minister assumed that he had chosen this astute means of letting Japanese public opinion crystallize around the fact that it is now a case of rule or ruin, triumph or bust. In the suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends herself and risks economic collapse at home. To this Japan's militarists stoutly retort: "There is no such thing as an economic collapse. One can always...
Thus within a fortnight Grace Moore had become London's latest rage. But her triumph lacked the approval of British critics who refused to be swayed by popular demonstrations. Not one of them would pronounce Grace Moore a great singer or even a beguiling actress. The Daily Express said: "Miss Moore was definitely a success, although her voice lacked something of the spiritual quality the part should have. . . ." The London Times summed up critical opinion when it said: "On the interpretative side Miss Moore had no vocal style to rank with those of her illustrious predecessors. . . . The ends...
...almost entirely limited to academic circles. Last week Professor Arthur Livingston looked upon the publication of his translation of Pareto's four-volume masterwork as the realization of 15 years of "dreams and efforts," the fruit of 9,000 hours of personal toil, a triumph over international difficulties, and claimed the honor of having been the first to publish a U. S. note on Pareto as well as the first to complete a translation into English of his subtle and difficult writing...
...point of view. The competition that develops between Miriam Brady (Bette Davis) and the hero's onetime sweetheart (Katherine Alexander), now married to another man, for the affections of Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) is presented honestly and with touches of saving humor. Miriam's final triumph is due, not to her ability to behave like a lady, but to her ability to make her rival behave like nothing of the sort when, at a fashionable luncheon, she goads the latter into throwing a grapefruit at her head...