Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times put it more bluntly: "The action of the International Longshoremen's Association . . . sets a precedent with dangerous implications. . . . The fact that many will applaud this action without thinking does not make it right. ... It will be a bad day for all of us when we allow our foreign relations to be directed by longshoremen, or any other group, instead of by responsible Government authorities...
...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
...Dunbar'-but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans." But Empire Subject Dunbar is not sure he likes living in the U.S. Says he: "I think I will make my home in Paris where, if you are good, they will applaud you whether you are pink, white or black, and if you are bad they will whistle...
Allow me to applaud your answer to Rev. Otis Moore [TIME, Letters July 8]: "Hate nobody-but keep your eyes peeled...
...amateurs didn't know everything about boxing, but they had plenty of fight. And that's what draws the crowds. Last week 19,216 noisy fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to boo and applaud the Golden Gloves's national finals. The fans saw plenty of the wild haymakers and weird grimaces which made good action shots for the photographers at the ringside (see cut). A few connoisseurs went for a special reason: to take a look at Negro Bob Foxworth, 22, touted as the coming Joe Louis...