Word: clappings
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...long ago, "the clap" used to be considered "no worse than a bad cold." Thanks to this cavalier attitude, many a child has become blind, many a woman made sterile, many an,oldster made insane. Syphilis killed its thousands, but gonorrhea crippled its tens of thousands...
...operagoers, who know when to clap and when not to, were scandalized. Most indignant of all were the 50-odd members of the Metropolitan's claque, whose carefully timed outbursts were swamped in the generally undisciplined enthusiasm...
Taking over the orchestra directed by his rival, the Opera Nacional's Jascha Horenstein, Sir Thomas found evidence of his predecessor's influence in rehearsal. "You know what we do with a musician like him in England?" snapped Sir Thomas. "We clap him in the Tower!" By the time Sir Thomas was through, Mexico City's ornate marble Palacio de Bellas Artes resounded with some of the most warmly polished Mozart that Mexicans had ever heard. The audience at the opening night's Don Giovanni also approved Baritone John Brownlee's legs (the most beautiful...
...Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...
...Trap-Clap. In Albany, the State Conservation Department awarded the State's animal-trapping championship to one Albert...