Word: clapping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Here then is a matter in which all can help. If everybody will keep quiet until he knows what he is talking about, and will call to account any unwarrantable statements made in his presence, ninetenths of this clap trap can be stopped. It is an insult to the coach, the captain, the players, and the whole University, and has been too long endured...
...hate for the King. They so far win his confidence that he entrusts to the disguised King the task of persuading the unwilling Mirabelle to marry Dan de Lion. To this end the King is again disguised, this time as the Bishop; and he and Robbie at once clap the real Bishop into a safe for safe keeping...
...before the end. As soon as the students had disappeared a perfect storm of hisses burst fourth. Liszt's blood was up; and, flinging down his music book lie turned around, faced the audience with defiance and, raising his long bony arms, covered with white gloves, he began to clap with all his might. The hisses were redoubled, the lights turned out and the audience dispersed in an uproar. Several times afterward similar scenes occurred. At these scenes the princess used to applaud rapturously, while the rest of the audience hissed: and Liszt and the princess continued the fight till...
...Clap, J. E. Stevens...
...Clap, A. B. Webber...