Word: dampers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
Until he had adequate guarantees of Rome's demilitarization, General Dwight D. Eisenhower could continue to bomb Rome. The Italian Government seemed to realize this: it put a damper on rejoicings of Rome's residents (see p. 32) by pointing out that "permanent relief from air attack" could be expected "only when the belligerents on the other side agreed that all terms had been...
...while wartime transportation problems have effectively put the damper on most of the season, the Yale match on February 6 and the Intercollegiate match, not yet definitely dated, remain to Barnaby as pillars around which to build his season. Even the Penn-Princeton matches, traditionally an intercollegiate opener, have been officially called off. There is just a chance, according to Barnaby, that his match will be played informally in New York during the Christmas vacation, opening Ivy League competition...
...additional damper on the Class Day festivities is the fact that the baseball game with Yale, usually played right after the Stadium exercises, has been moved several weeks forward...
Comedian Wynn followed with 15 minutes of foolish talk. The damper audience began heckling him, got better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...