Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of their services to the Government to $1 a year, but they had allowed the Government to bargain them down still more. Because of the 5% Federal pay cut still in force, their annual pay checks came through for only 95?. The 2,000 businessmen present might have applauded their hosts if this fact had been called to their attention, but they were by no means ready to applaud when Chairman Williams told them plainly that, unless they could prove it would damage business, NRA was going to put an end to price control. Said he: ''Greater...
...same she had a year ago, the offspring of her parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
...allied to the former regime....Mexico's "New Deal" may not be to the liking of all good churchmen, but as one who planned to give a life of service to Mexico in behalf of religion, and who was prevented from so doing by the present government, I applaud the action of the Revolutionists in the attempt to banish foreign representatives of foreign religion, both Protestant and Catholic...
...their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult she can think of: "You cripple!" If the final sequences showing Philip becoming engaged to a decent wholesome girl suggest the standard pattern of a happy...