Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday cheer failed to drown out one small croak. Employment (exclusive of farm labor) in November, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was off 170,000 from October. It was the first time in seven years that such employment had dropped during the usually booming pre-Christmas season. (At 45,700,000, U.S. non-farm employment was still 800,000 above a year...
This news was so calamitous to phonograph makers and record sellers that it threatened to drown out the joyful celebrating over the end of James C. Petrillo's ban* on recordings (see Music). Said one Chicago radio executive: "It raises chaos in the entire industry, just as a change in rail gauges would do to railroads...
...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...
...gadget-gift field is by far the biggest--and easiest to shop. Any store contains enough perfume, of various and assorted smells, to drown in, and the salesgirls will be happy to spray you with drams of it. But unless you know your girls taste in scents, stay away from heavy, dramatic perfumes and pick light brands--or she may trade it to her roommate for a chocolate bar without nuts...
...Manhattan, M-G-M likes to avoid projection-room screenings and show its films to reviewers at "sneak previews" in regular theaters. The tactic seems designed to drown out critical judgments with loud sounds of audience approval...