Word: clappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very good grasp of the game," said O'Malley, with an effort, afterward. "He was quick to see the difference between cricket and baseball." Said the King, "At cricket they only clap. They do not cheer." As time passed, all sorts of bizarre things befell Feisal. He rode to City Hall in an open car while noontime crowds craned at him curiously. He took a regular $1.40 tour of Radio City. In the midst of it a news photographer, afraid of being barred by cops, handed the King his camera and said: "Here-you take the pictures." Feisal complied...
...merely content to keep the audience happy. In one number, "Chi-ri-bim," emcee Lou Saxon divides the audience into two parts, the Litvaks and the Galitzianas, and tries to get it to join in on the chorus. After a couple of futile tries, three thousand people begin to clap and sing along with the actors...
...arranged: the Egyptians agreed to disarm their police, the British promised to evacuate the military families from Ismailia as quickly as possible. Both sides seemed eager to avoid trouble. The women were clearing out; it was unwise to be out after dark or to go off limits; a clap of the hands no longer brought native servants on the trot...
...sellers hope to push sales well over half-billion mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that can be milked, a cowboy costume which, turned inside out. becomes...
Harvard's helping hand to its Connecticut rival was exemplified by Edward Holyoke 1705, who became the seventh president of Harvard. During his 30-year term of office he corresponded regularly with his counterparts at Yale, sagely advising them on matters of College administration. He warned President Thomas Clap of Yale against putting gutters on his buildings because the students would undoubtedly clog them up with refuse. He also advised against lining Yale's windows with lead, writing Clap that the students would probably steal the lead and sell...