Word: claps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this person's father well," certified General Li. "This person, when a child, was undoubtedly a girl. I am positive of that. Little by little the change took place, until the last stage which was most sudden and occurred during a thunderstorm. After the convulsion of a great clap of thunder, this person appeared to have become a manly youth. Superstitious people think there has been, an act of the Gods. I say it is for Science to decide...
There followed such a mass of charges and counter-charges that examining magistrates were glad to postpone the entire business, clap Grandson Millet into jail on the simple charge of passing worthless checks...
...Others followed Gatti-Casazza backstage, saw what he saw through his private peephole to the stage, heard what he heard in his office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions as he listened to Martinelli's high notes, to the thunderous applause. Finally, the camera watched him clap on his hat, shrug into his overcoat, trudge wearily down the corridor, away from the last Met opening he will ever direct...
...order, even in peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion to war use. The third decree law permits the Government to clap into jail for five years any Pole who supplies information to a foreign government which could be used against Poland in case of war. Since the decree is so drawn that it can be made to cover even ordinary economic news printed in a daily paper, Polish publishers were incensed...
...Stephen Spender writes verse that more nearly approximates what has been traditionally known as poetry; even Catos will clap his lines to a dead airman...