Word: claps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience in the crowded old Caracas Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
...moviegoers got a clap on the back from Jack L Warner of Hollywood's Warner Brothers. His considered estimate of the fans: "the most adult-minded audiences in motion picture history." Responsible for this grown-upness: "early mental maturing . . . via the newspapers and radio, as well as the screen...
...most extraordinary sessions I have ever witnessed at the Chamber. When Jacques Duclos explained the Political Bureau's decision he got the most lukewarm cheering from the Communist benches that the chubby maestro has ever had to endure. Marty looked as though it killed him to clap his hands together twice, and after the confidence vote (411-to-0) I heard him say to Thorez in the corridor: 'Is that how we defend the interests of the working class...
...microphone the chairman was preparing the ovation for Senator Pepper's radio address. "Clap fast," he ordered, "not slow. Scream & whistle. Pretend I'm Orson Welles." Perfunctorily and apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...