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Word: clapsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Everyone dislikes the idea of censorship," said Williams, "like the small boy at the movies who claps derisively when 'Passed by the National Board of Review' is shown.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORS CHECKED IN UNION DEBATE | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

Howdy, King. Having made a million and more by providing the U. S. public with a cheerful conglomeration of the races in Abie's Irish Rose, Producer Anne Nichols now tries a mixture of cowboys and kings. Herein, a millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

It is of no avail. She cuts his face with a whip. In a twinkling he appears as no less a figure than the "Red Shadow," leader of native insurgents. Masked, the Flaming Youth makes successful love in the desert fashion. In the East when a man claps his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Fay-Yen-Fah again justified the comment of a Monte Carlo croupier: "Man dieu! One can understand why the Americans do not love opera, if theirs are all like this!" But the "poppy ballet," and the "lily ballet," and the "melodies which flow along easily and attach themselves to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In San Francisco | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, he for whom, some weeks ago, there rolled a volley of such shouts, claps, that a revival of Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was stopped until he took a curtain call and taxi-drivers without looked at one another in amaze (TIME, Jan. 12), last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modest Tibbett | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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