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Life for men and women is full of difficulties. And if the difficulties are mostly trivial, they dampen the spirits perhaps even more than splendid trials. Though there has not been a major bombing raid in nearly a year, there is total, blackout every night, everywhere. The first experience of a blackout has its interesting points, but on the 1,001st night it is only a bloody nuisance...
...nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo...
Thereupon Hearst wired harsh words to King Features. Lyons availed himself of a 60-day cancellation clause, signed with McNaught Syndicate. The change did not dampen his cheerful animation. McNaught Syndicate's Charles McAdam (a Lyons booster from way back) was confident he could add a lot more Lyons customers...
Observers pronounced the workout as the best of the year for the Harlowmen, and some of the gloom hanging over the Crimson gridiron camp lifted. Darkness and a heavy mist didn't dampen spirits as the Varsity ran through their plays with reckless abandon...
Moreover, a hunter for peace might easily have found a few faint signs of improvement on the international horizon last week. The week-end trouble in Czechoslovakia (see p. 22) was not likely to dampen determined British optimism and Britain was more than likely not to do any more than protest against another partition of the country. The British low-down on Germany last week was that the Nazis were having such a tough time with economic problems that they could scarcely plan an "adventure" soon. Similarly...