Word: clapped
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...Stephen Spender writes verse that more nearly approximates what has been traditionally known as poetry; even Catos will clap his lines to a dead airman...
...between the old and new ideas of penology. The new ideas implies a steady concentration and persistence. The old idea needs simply emotional outbursts. Most people grew up on the old idea and find it hard to be converted. You can use the old method without thinking. You just clap a man into a cell and forget it. The new ideas involving discussions with the men, and inquires into their character and records, requires patience and intelligence...
...John Stockholder could still afford to clap his hands as he saw other companies show deficits reduced, deficits turned into profits, and profits turned into bigger profits for the first nine months of 1933. Even the few companies whose nine-month profits were smaller than a year ago showed growing earnings for the last three months. Some reports to John Stockholder...
...lose his job last spring in Germany. A conductor without an orchestra, he has drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock...
...were more than usually routine and futile. When he rose to make his first address, attendants agreed that not since the oratorical pinwheels of the late Aristide Briand had a League audience given such an ovation. From the front row even handsome German Foreign Minister von Neurath started to clap until nudged into silence by beady-eyed Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels. Said Chancellor Dollfuss...