Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the civil-rights uproar, the South, like the big-city bosses, could recognize him as a regular party man (unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who was regular only when it suited him). The old New Dealers might have been expected to applaud a President who had plumped hard for price controls, civil rights, and a big housing program. Labor might have been expected to rally around the man who had vetoed the hated Taft-Hartley law, had thrice vetoed what he called a rich man's tax bill...
...father picked him up and they headed home. Though the dory was stove in, they managed to tow it for evidence. They also brought a piece of soft skin as thick as suit cloth-whale hide, both said. Listening, Provincetown was puzzled, as to whether it should applaud Frank Jr. for riding the whale, or for being the biggest liar in the world. It was an awful situation -and unless somebody checked Willie's hide to see if a portion was missing, Provincetown would never know...
...Wolff offers an alibi, but no cure, to people with routine hangovers. The amount of alcohol consumed has little to do with the morning-after head pain, he says: it comes from fatigue and excitement. Heavy drinkers will applaud the Wolff theory: that whooping it up all night, without touching a drop, is enough to cause a hangover...
...within his chosen limits, Olivier and his associates have done excellently-from grandiose poetic conceptions (e.g., the frightfully amplified heartbeats which introduce the Ghost) to clever little captures of mood (e.g., the cold, discreet clapping of gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition...
When Governor Earl arrived on the wooden stadium stage, 211 newly appointed colonels were on hand to applaud him. Said the governor: "If anybody else wants to be a colonel, just let me know." When a 19-gun salute banged out in his honor he cracked: "I hope nobody got shot." The crowd roared. It cheered again when he paraphrased brother Huey: "I hope to see this a state where every man is a king and every lady a queen, but no one is wearing the crown...