Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...
...able staff, the countless decisions and plans had to be made at the desk of the manager himself. Being the keystone of such a vital series of events as the Tercentenary is a position of unique importance, and the authorities who placed the responsibility with Mr. Greene must applaud with us all the completed work...
Down the centre aisle through the hushed House, escorted by Representatives O'Connor, Taylor and Snell, marched the sturdy, grim-lipped, white-suited Alabamian. A tactless Congressman started to applaud, was quickly shushed. Speaker Bankhead took his oath with shaking hand, head bowed to hide his tears...
...abhorrence of all claptrap. Few other conductors could have withstood the adulation that has been lavished on Toscanini during his decade with the Philharmonic. Yet not one commentator has failed to point to Toscanini's humility in the presence of great music. When players interrupted a rehearsal to applaud their leader, he would cut them short with: "It is not I, Gentlemen. It is Beethoven...