Word: clappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What's the matter-can't you clap? Can't you hear me?" asked the loudspeaker. A burst of laughter exploded from the crowd. "My face isn't much to look at," Hatoyama went on, "but at least you can hear my voice...
Fortunately, Noddy is a popular fellow in Toyland. The Golliwogs like him, and so do Silky the Pixie, Big Ears the Brownie, and Mr. Pink-Whistle, "who goes about the world putting wrong things right." Thus, when Mr. Plod the Policeman wants to clap Noddy into jail on bread and water and rice pudding. Noddy's friends whisk him off on the Toyland Train ("Chuffity-chuffity-chuffity-chuff") to find the real culprits in Goblin-Land...
...police chief (Vittorio De Sica) comes to town. A middle-aged bachelor with a broad outlook, he makes a play for Gina, soon oversteps himself and falls in the river. That same afternoon, when Gina gets in a street fight. Chief De Sica takes his chance to clap her in the clink. But when he goes to her cell in the dead of night, Gina touchingly tells him that she is worried about her donkey. The police chief goes ruefully off to give the brute some hay. Gina of course gets the man she wants...
Tired, hot and irritable, the pilgrims stopped off for a two-day rest at the ancient beauty spot of Hangchow, where pagodas rim lovely West Lake, in which gold carp come at a visitor's clap. Swimming in a pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
...dinner the scarlet-coated Marine Band orchestra played nostalgic songs from the days when Ike was courting Mamie, e.g., selections from The Chocolate Soldier; the conversation was full of sentimental remembrances. The song that stopped the table talk, stretched Ike's grin to capacity and moved Mamie to clap her hands, was Down Among the Sheltering Palms, a national hit in 1915 and still the President's alltime favorite...