Word: handclap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion, that there was not even one absent-minded handclap from the 900 listeners...
Joseph Conn is a radio fan, but he hates commercials. He has his own way of dodging them. Whenever he feels a commercial coming, he turns off his set by merely clapping his hands. Another handclap starts his radio blaring again when he thinks the plug is ended. A "commercial eradicator," which Conn invented, does the trick...