Word: swell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever been made before. The research was started last fall and Professor Taussig estimates that it will be several months before the exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey by an advisory board composed of J. H. Barnes, president of the American Chamber of Commerce, James Bell, president of the Washburn-Crosby Company, W. S. Gifford '05, president of the American...
Where the fangs enter, a sharp burning pain is immediately felt. It gets worse. The wounds bleed; the parts get blue and swell. Numbness sets in and spreads; vomiting begins; breathing becomes difficult; paralysis starts. The victim suffocates, dies. Each year some 5,000 such tortured deaths occur in India. In the U. S. last year there were 27 reported. There might have been more, for at least 507 persons here were bitten by rattlers, moccasins, copperheads, massasaugas and corals. They are the only poisonous snakes in Canada and the U. S. More of the bitten might have died...
Ellison Hoover, cartoonist, author of Cartoons from Life (Simon & Schuster, 1925) including the two swell series "Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry," and "An Impression of (various cities) by One Who Has Never Been There...
Last spring, he wrote for the New York World an obituary for famed Nora Bayes, which ended: "I don't know where she is now, but I do know that whoever is with her is having a swell time." That applies well to Frank Sullivan, whether you are with him or reading his works...
...ever, P. Whiteman done a swell job on I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE Jazz, M'dea, done swelly...