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Word: clappings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Gambling. George Michael Cohan is an actor who, in the character of a hoary and vindictive gambler, by making improper proposals to a mercenary trollop, can cause middle-aged ladies to murmur happily with approval, although one would expect them to clap tippets to their ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Tearing off her gloves to clap louder, she saw the horse guards and the King's carriage just turning the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Gran'pa!" screamed Princess Lilybet. ''Look, Aunty Mary! Look! You clap too!" Princess Mary obligingly clapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Clap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Cincinnati, one Mrs. Bertha Simpson, in order not to wake her husband one stormy night last week, waited for a thunder clap to drown the noise of the revolver with which she shot herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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