Word: claps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
...evening last week, before a subdued Birmingham audience who were prepared both to clap (unhysterically) and heckle (politely), Neville Chamberlain stepped apologetically to a microphone, cleared his throat and fidgeted with his prepared speech. It was the last of a series of quiet Cabinet statements (and understatements) of Britain's case. The reedy voice began: "My Lord Mayor, my lords, ladies and gentlemen. . . ." Quietly it proceeded, in the well-considered, nicely balanced classical oratory without which no Briton could become a politician and no politician move a Briton: "I don't think there can be doubt...
...Minister Oliver Stanley left his gas mask in his motor, as did the Canadians' commander, Major General Andrew George Lotto McNaughton, and other brass hats. When the gas alarm sounded during a demonstration of trench digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working . . . under actual war conditions...