Word: clappings
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During March a rumble of warning came when seven banks suspended payments. The first thunder clap (TIME, April 18), was the announcement by Japan's richest woman, Mme. Yone Suzuki that her enormous importing and exporting firm would delay payments on its $250,000,000 obligations. Forthwith came another thunderbolt-suspension by the great Bank of Taiwan, chief creditor of Suzuki...
...musical comedy tart is both musical and comic. Gershwin Brothers saw to it that Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, and Victor Moore had the material, and these three, aided by the dancing of Harland Dixon and Betty Compton, made good use of it. When they play "Do Do Do" and "Clap Yo" Hands," the audience does...
...command from President von Hindenburg cause German modistes to clap wigs on mannequins...
Some one had left a switch open. The train leaped up a siding and buried its snorting nose in a freight train. The flier's engineer was killed, his mates injured painfully. Back in the sleeper, the motherly woman awoke, thought she had heard a thunder clap, dropped off again. She was fatigued after her previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once...
...short, without him we would not eat. Yet we treat him very badly. We. organize our commerce so that he has no other way of making a living and we cannot get along without him; then on slightest provocation we clap him into jail; we pass laws against him when he joins the I. W. W., and finally, to cap it all off, we make fun of him. We are ever ungrateful to those who serve us, but it would seem that we could find a better way to treat him. Perhaps we should contribute something to the endowment...