Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does the public applaud the Post? In its ascetic pre-Curtis days, its daily circulation was a meagre 32,506. This, while the fattening process began and the price went up to five cents, fell off to an average of 31,291 for six months ending Oct. 1. Of late, they say, Mr. Curtis' motto that "nothing succeeds like success" has begun to justify itself. Since October, the figure has jumped to 38,000 and the Post "has utterly outgrown its present quarters." It has bought a city lot. It will build a spacious new mansion. It "will not keep...
...opening proceedings were entirely uncharacteristic of Italian Parliaments. Whatever the Fascisti said, only the Fascisti could applaud or boo. And, more strange, there was a total absence of that usually irresistible temptation for the Opposition spokesman to speak at the same time the Government spokesman. At least in this respect, the boycotted Parliament was superior to its predecessors...
...political year. He has proved beyond doubt his courage, sincerity, and common sense. With Andrew Mellon; his stand is based on fact and national expediency, not on a lack of economic knowledge and an unhealthy desire merely to oppose. Intelligent and honest minded Americans in all political parties will applaud him and support his ideas. --Yale Daily News...
...history; not as Minister of Munitions or as Prime Minister of England?one of the greatest titles ever known to history?during the conduct of that stupendous war. We welcome you not as a statesman of national and international and permanent achievement and fame. We honor those things, we applaud those things; but we welcome to Bohemia and to the Lotos, David Lloyd George, human being...
...still told among musicians how some years ago there appeared in Russia a boy orchestra conductor, son of Italian parents who were singers in a traveling opera troupe. The lad was nine years old and a genius. The ablest musicians of Russia gathered to applaud the splendor of his interpretations. He went on tour through Russia and appeared before huge audiences. Musicians warned the parents not to play him to ruin, that the prodigy should be taken away from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated...