Word: applaudable
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...guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl...
...think any decent person will applaud your recommending such an utterly baseless book as "Jesus: A Myth"? I should turn that title into an exclamation about the book itself! I've read "Her Son's Wife" and "A Manifest Destiny" too, and honest, I simply can't see how your minds work to think these are "good books." Just out of curiosity I think I'll try a couple of others, shutting my eyes to choose. I predict not one in three is any good, but it so happens I now have time to waste...
...Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant Bacchanals brought $15. The applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit of the fashionable world to applaud the picture of the late Mr. Romney. That the works of his immortal betters went for prices that are commonly paid for art calendars, iron lawn-dogs, and imitation ikons was merely one more illustration of the fact that time will tell-lies. "Now," said a critic, commenting...
...dentifrice should provide only the necessary cleaning qualities to remove the sticky coating from the teeth without injuring the enamel. . . . If you are confused about the care of your teeth, your dentist will corroborate the verdict of sixty years. . . ." Alert readers of the Saturday Evening Post, eager to applaud a "dentifrice fight," reflected ruefully that Forhan's cannot start rebuttal through the Saturday Evening Post for two months-the time consumed by the Post's pulp presses and slow freight distribution system in the preparation of each issue...
...audience which warmly greeted the début of a contralto in Minneapolis were many sharp- seeing critics of pugilism. They were not always sure of the correct moment to applaud, but when they got the "tip" from others, they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...