Word: applaud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...
Boston audiences, much maligned by most visiting actors, received a kind word from Mr. Hopper. "Boston audiences," he averred, "are as appreciative as any that you can find. It's true that they do not applaud as pronouncedly as audiences do in some places, for instance, New York. But New York audiences are deceptive in that they do not represent the citizens of that city. The people you play to in New York are excursionists from all over the country, and they have the excursionist spirit. But the real New York audience, the one you get on Saturday night...
...Boston, you don't get so many out-of-towners, and so the audience is more representative. For this reason, there is none of the 'cutting loss' so characteristic of excursionists. Boston, however, provides as good a 'laughing audience' as you can get. They laugh, but they do not applaud, and perhaps this is why they have their bad reputation. Boston audiences are appreciative, and they are intelligent. The little subtleties are noticed, but they are acknowledged by laughter rather than by applause...
...possible to make almost any course in the College interesting. History, even records the day when students in Philos C prolonged their hour for long minutes to applaud the lectures of Professor Wallace Clement Sabine. And failure to be interesting implies failure on the part of the instructor, however much he may choose to disregard the fact...
...General reached the age limit and retired in 1903, after several disagreements, with Mr. Roosevelt. Since then, it has - been the privilege of younger men at" Washington to make the General's acquaintance; and of the public to applaud him on patriotic occasions...