Word: applaudable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctor of Laws: Citation: "Governor of the Commonwealth and former Overseer of Harvard College; a multitude of devoted friends and proud fellow citizens applaud his high integrity and courageous public service...
Doctor of Laws: Citation: "Governor of the Commonwealth and former Overseer of Harvard College; a multitude of devoted friends and proud fellow citizens applaud his high integrity and courageous public service...
...Montreal concert audience began applauding before the orchestra had quite finished a chorus. Famed Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whipped around, shouted: "Silence! We don't applaud before the orchestra has finished playing." When the orchestra had properly finished, the audience then responded with a chorus of its own: "Booo...
...Raeder's religion has always been the German Navy. Today, as Commander in Chief of the Navy and one of Adolf Hitler's favorites among his top fighting men, he can justify all his actions of the past 30 years in terms most Germans can understand and applaud. For a good end he stooped to low means. He shucked dignity, closed his eyes to principles, was alternately sycophant, stout leader, wheedling trimmer and belligerent hell-roarer. The method worked. Few years ago his Navy was "the ugly little stepchild of the Government." Today the stepchild is a favorite...
...C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...