Word: claps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audible eruption of a W.C. to German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken, draws a round of compassionate applause. No audience can resist The Wookey...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
Airplanes turned the trick in East Africa last week. Resistance of the Italian Empire, which had appeared to be stiffening, suddenly collapsed. Everywhere the extra factor which made the difference was a clap of bombing and a clatter of strafing by planes of the British Empire, for the British had learned the lesson taught by the Germans in Poland, Norway and the Low Countries: that an air force can be used in lieu of artillery to strike where artillery cannot reach because of distance or rough terrain...
...Your suggestion that "Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line" [TIME, Dec. 23] is such a gross distortion that I could not discuss it in terms worthy of the mayor of a great city...
Wauchula was the place where we played musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...