Word: claps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well might the brokers clap for their defender. Many a small brokerage house which has a gross business of $500,000 a year is lucky in these days to net 15% of gross for division among half a dozen or more partners. A tax of 5% of gross would take one-third of its profits. Worse off would be larger houses which do a large "wire" business (execute orders transmitted by out-of-town members, receiving only one-half of the normal commission for their services). Worse off too would be oddlot houses, who specialize in furnishing lots of less...
When a participant in a serious controversy resorts to cheap clap-trap for arguments and indulges in provocative diatribes, it is about time to wind it up. After the following brief comment I withdraw from the field, leaving it entirely to my opponent, if he chooses to further acquaint the readers of CRIMSON with the latest communistic anti-Gandhi invectives...
Obviously not leading a vigorous intellectual life of their own, the editors spend their time alternately flaying every other group in the University and the neighborhood, and extending a rotarian handshake and clap on the back to anyone with anything to say. They aim not so much to start people thinking, that demands a point of view, and a certain amount of mental activity, but to find people who are thinking, to hang onto the bandwagon if there...
...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
...evidence by the cliche of putting the prosecutor in the boots of the prosecuted. Obviously such a theme will have as wide an appeal as a well-written detective story. Like some of the mediocre tales of crime, "Circumstantial Evidence" suffers from a plot that temerity would brand as clap-trap, but discrimination would be inclined to call well cemented. Although damaging evidence may be inextricable from the truth, a plot that is so tortuously constructed is likely to cause the spectator's credulity to totter. There are too many improbable parallels...