Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
What he said (see below) caused most of the Congress to look unusually grave. There were a few exceptions: midway in the speech, Republican Leader Bob Taft took off his glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
...Eisler, perhaps the key figure of a number of his ilk who are boring from within, has no loyalty except to Communism. He wants to replace a free U.S. democracy with a sovietized state. This was a case of clearly discernible danger to the U.S., and the U.S. could applaud the Thomas Committee and the FBI for being on the alert...
Americans could applaud Lilienthal's statement. It had the ring of truth. But the problem was not simple. There is at work in the U.S. an active, aggressive, malignant thing-conspiratorial Communism-which must be rooted out. It is fairly easy to recognize it in men like Gerhart Eisler...
...fear and abject submission." But Observer Ingersoll thus wound up his mission to Warsaw: "There was what we would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...