Word: claps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small cluster of men gather in one of the dark sallyports, stamp their feet and clap their hands in an effort to get warm. A light flashes on in the guard room and the men in the sallyport allently form in a double rank...
Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...
What an admirable way to avoid the issue by calling in the supernatural to explain the business cycle! The dithyrambic clap-trap with which the editorial ends is a fitting conclusion to this remarkable display of intelligence: "The silence of agitators who failed to stir is a challenge made by uneasy, yet confident labor, to those in the saddle to apply the crop and spur to a steed from whom much must be expected in the future." Henry Ehrlich...
...universality of his genius but by the splendid normality of his life. He has given us a pattern that will always be valid: that it is the highest duty and aim of the individual to develop his own individuality and character to the highest extent possible." Clap, clap went the hands of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and other wholehearted Goethians...
When heavy-jowled Stanford White, one of the country's most talented architects, was commissioned to design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana...