Word: dampering
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...unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding this accusation, and at the same time are putting a damper on any analogy, faint though it may be, to Sacco and Vanzetti and other so called victims of prejudice...
Resignation? A new sponge must always be soaked before using or its fibres may scratch the hand that uses it and the surface it is intended to clean. The question last week in Washington was: did Secretary Mellon put such a thorough damper on Assistant Secretary Lowman that the latter might soon resign...
...China, under the old government drew up treaties with 13 countries which bound her to a uniform five, per cent tariff on all goods. As a result they are unable to foster infant industries by protection, or to impose duties for revenue. This is obviously unjust and is a damper to progress...
Shortly before the final adjournment of the Council was moved, Senhor Mello Franco strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...
...anything can put a damper on the vagabonding spirit, it is a cold. Rain helps a little. That grand New England institution of the boardwalk has its merits and its cracks. While a chair and "Gandle Follows His Nose", the book which Heywood Broun claims to have read more often that any other novel in the language--possibly because he wrote it--, may wreck the best intentions in the world...