Word: clappings
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...stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap...
Life in Pisa was seldom dull. Sometimes Shelley saw visions. He alarmed one friend by pointing to the sea one day and saying: "There it is again-there!" He said he saw "a naked child," Byron's dead daughter, Allegra, "rise from the sea and clap its hands as in joy. . . ." Once in an absent-minded moment he "glided" stark naked through the room where his wife was entertaining friends...
...fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into a Nazi insane asylum...
...audible eruption of a W.C. to German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken, draws a round of compassionate applause. No audience can resist The Wookey...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...