Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Colonel Blimp has come to his end under the Government of Winston Churchill, only historians can decide. But last week his body, semiofficially, was laid to rest in the longest, most expensive cinema ever made in Britain. Present to applaud The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at London's Odeon Theatre were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, many another bigwig...
That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
...Senate is not in the habit of rising to its feet to applaud. For Madame Chiang it rose and thundered...
...Cuba, President Batista said, the only elements that would not applaud such a move are Cuban Falangists, now being rounded up in droves as fifth columnists. Possibly there was some hyperbole in Batista's claim that an invasion of Spain would receive "a total ovation for the Allied cause throughout all Latin America." But, by being blunt, Batista expressed for the first time the sentiments of millions of good friends of democracy in the Western Hemisphere who are tired of apologies and flatteries for Franco...
...automobiles in used-car lots. The Government could take the iron railings from around yards, balconies and estates. The Government could take the chromium plated and nickel-plated fixtures from homes. If it were done without favoritism, the American people would approve it. More than that, they would applaud...