Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious music lover finds little to cheer about these days on the local record scene. Victor and Columbia catalogues are incomplete or inaccurate; lists of many important recordings are missing and fine albums have been out of stock for years. The quality of twelve inch disks, while improved since the war, is still ragged, with imperfect surfaces and edges and gritty tone creeping up all too often. Needless duplication of the Tschaikowsky, Beeethoven, and Brahms symphonies wastes precious material while the lesser known but valuable works of such composers as Mozart, Purcell, and most moderns are sadly neglected. American catalogues...
Meat industry experts could sight no appreciable easing of the shortage before the year's end. OPA Boss Paul Porter tried to whistle up some cheer, but his best was a prediction that supplies would be "fairly good" after six or eight weeks. If not, Administration Democrats did not like to think about the effects on the November elections...
...spot in the Department's gloomy outlook. Although they were made at a Government loss of $11,700,000, they will bring in more than $100,000,000 in alcohol taxes, leaving a tidy Government profit of some $90,000,000. But even this was no bit of cheer for Anderson. "We will be criticized," he moaned, "at the next W.C.T.U. convention...
...Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray. The American in the carriage tipped his silk hat and bowed stiffly...
...pedestrian who suddenly sees the muddy, sweaty finalists pant past in the last stages of a transcontinental bicycle race. He has no idea of where they are pedaling to, no conception of the vigor and dash with which they began the contest. Nonetheless, he feels an instinctive desire to cheer -if only because he can see that they have come a long way in bad weather...