Word: claps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chimney Sweep or Painter? Almost a pre-Pre-Raphaelite was Painter John Everett Millais. At ten, he used to clap "old daddy" familiarly on the back. "Dear creatures," he would say tolerantly of his parents. At this tender age John Everett's mother took her artistically precocious son to see the president of the Royal Academy. "Madam," said the president, "you had better make him a chimney sweep." Then he looked at John's drawings. "Madam," said the president, "it is your duty to bring the boy up to art." At twelve, John Everett won the Royal Academy...
Though elected by components of the now dead Popular Front, President Rios has already got tough with labor. While awaiting full powers under the Emergency Bill, he used its threat to outlaw and smash strikes, to clap strike leaders in jail, to intervene in and control trade-union elections. Among the semi-dictatorial powers the new bill grants the President is that of declaring "emergency zones" and a "state of siege." suspending constitutional guarantees and permitting the "militarization" of labor elements...
...stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap...
Life in Pisa was seldom dull. Sometimes Shelley saw visions. He alarmed one friend by pointing to the sea one day and saying: "There it is again-there!" He said he saw "a naked child," Byron's dead daughter, Allegra, "rise from the sea and clap its hands as in joy. . . ." Once in an absent-minded moment he "glided" stark naked through the room where his wife was entertaining friends...
...fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into a Nazi insane asylum...