Word: applauding
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...England to see his act. They stood on their chairs, stomping and cheering. Long after the clown himself had shuffled off, wiping a tear from his dead-white face with a floppy sleeve, the cheers ran on, until at last a loudspeaker blared: "Please, ladies and gentlemen, do not applaud any longer. Grock is not coming back. Grock is never coming back...
...browsing through the Crimson today we discovered Mr. Goldman's and Mr. Kennedy's delightful suggestion that each boy invite two girls to the House dances. We would like to be the first to applaud this gracious idea and if it is not too rash, to accept their kind invitation...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...
...Senators, still unnerved by Secretary Dulles' grave warnings about Indo-China (see above), were in no mood to applaud-even though Stassen promised that there would be no relaxation of tight controls on trade with North Korea or Communist China. New Jersey's usually sunny H. Alexander Smith scowled darkly when Stassen admitted that the list of nonstrategic goods for Russia included "simple types of machine tools." Snapped Senator Smith: "It seems to me that we are strengthening their war potential." With an increased supply of civilian goods from the West, he said, the Soviets "can now concentrate...
...from opposing enterprise and originality in business, we applaud the promotion agency who concocted this farce. If it works, it will be a tribute to American ingenuity. However, we object to the use of the House Dining Halls for the distribution of advertising leaflets, as we almost had indigestion today snickering over them. Stephen Lowey '55 Howard W. Barnes...