Every sensational public happening was immediately clapped into rhyme and sold on broadsheets.
After being arrested for forging a signature on a check, Ponzi was clapped into a Quebec jail for twenty months and told his unsuspecting mother that he had landed a job as a "special assistant" to the warden.
He fought at the battle of Shiloh, was captured by a Union patrol, clapped into prison at Camp Douglas and given the choice of fighting for the North or rotting.
'The Magdalene Sisters' In Ireland in the mid-1960's a girl who was raped or carried on with the boys was likely to be clapped into servitude at a convent run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order.
Godwin's friend Roy Bennett, a white Shona-speaking ex-farmer and M.D.C. leader, beloved by his black constituents, returns from exile in South Africa to take up a junior cabinet post and is clapped into jail, held for weeks in frightful conditions.
If anyone had suggested at the end of the first act that Justin Monjo and Nick Enright's five-hour adaptation of Tim Winton's novel would triumph in Melbourne, Zurich, Dublin, the London fringe and at the Royal National Theater in London, he would have been clapped into a straitjacket.
Supply-side economics was clapped into a lock-box and put on a shelf.
Quite aside from self-preservation, it's pretty obvious that Snowden would have been enormously less effective over the last year if he'd returned and been clapped into solitary a la Chelsea Manning.
Popular search terms during the speech included "steve scalise," "who is sitting behind trump," "trump party planner, "live fact check trump" and, oddly, "trump clapping," possibly a reference to what appear to have been his own very amplified claps into the microphone following major talking points.
Because of the lack of reverb or feedback, the room is spiritually similar to being in an open field, clapping into the open sky, but crammed down into an enclosed space.
