Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tears rolled down the rugged Warren cheeks and were frankly wiped away by a large white handkerchief as the Senate rose en masse to applaud unstintedly its laconic patriarch...
Close to a thousand people, including many members of the Massachusetts Legislature, assembled in Symphony Hall last night to listen to the Harvard and Boston College debaters argue the merits of capital punishment, and to applaud vigorously when the unanimous decision of the three judges awarded the victory to the Bostonians. At times the contest degenerated into almost parliamentary caviling, but on many occasions it rose to brilliant heights of clear presentation and quick rebuttal which kept the audience breathless...
...applaud the "horrors of war" story; it is, the fashion nowadays. But those who soldiered under General Neville have a secret conviction that it was worth the "horrors" to watch him in action. Every inch a man,-and quite a few inches...
...Charles Farrand Taplin, who is trying to put together a fast coal route from Toledo to the Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon's armies or the Kaiser's navy...
...however, this famed theatre-for-tiny-tots was taken over by Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry, who is usually to be found co-starring with his wife, Mile. Yvonne Printemps, in Paris' latest and most urbanely naughty hit. To the Chatelet tripped and strode, last week, Tout Paris to applaud what one critic called "the boyish dignity and so entrancing innocence de notre cher Lindbergh...