Word: clappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when all this clap-trap is out of the way, Kaye rides triumphantly through the rest of the picture, assuming Eton accents, Irish brogues, car salesman mannerisms, and ballet postures with equal facility. It is only too bad that the people responsible for "Knock on Wood" seemed to feel that something inherently funny could be made out of a mother fixation and some stolen atomic secrets...
...believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands...
...reveries, during which he was apt to forget that he was attending an official function and think he was watching a play. When, at Princeton, a bishop intoned a superb benediction, Spring-Rice was so impressed by the "performance" that he brought his hands together with a resounding clap," and was only saved from further applause by Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who nimbly pinned the ambassadorial elbows together from behind...
...Kipling: "I saw no power of reflection, though there was a real gift of happy phrase . . . When he said anything especially good he looked up as if waiting for you to clap your hands...
...Book (Johnny Standley; Capitol). Something about "grandma's lye soap," in which Comedian Standley wows a studio audience and makes it clap hands in unison...