Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
...Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center aisle, stood full-throated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, singing Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. The audience, warned not to applaud in the church, sat in pent-up enthusiasm which mounted from song to song, until at last, when Flagstad made her final bow, some 20 of her listeners jumped to their feet and silently bowed...
...eager fellow beside him was starting a new page, but Vag quickly capped his pen to free his hands for action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...
...with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40 years, 15 of them as headmaster...
...name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...