Word: clapprood
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...time or another, I have shared the dais [at roasts] with all of the people involved," said Rep. Marjorie A. Clapprood (D-Sharon), who said she understood the organizers were looking for people "who take their jobs seriously but not themselves...
...Clapprood agreed with her colleague: "I will shoot from the hip [tonight], which is exactly what we do on Beacon Hill everyday...
Although she was named "Class Clown" at Brookline High School in 1967, Clapprood said she has no special comic qualifications. "I'll talk about a lot of inside political stuff, and especially what it's like for a woman working with all these male chauvinist pigs," she said...
...have to do twice as well to look half as good," said Clapprood, who is one of only 30 women in the State's House of Representatives...