Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalistic pipes with a mighty welter of superlative swell toward the climax of the overture. Out in the shadow house a moneyed populace whispers expectantly, and straining, catches through a rift in the curtain delicious glimpses of promised wonders. And not a tear, even hypocritical, falls for the old fellow, battered but unbowed, led away to an obscure almshouse. It is the model Y of fragrant memories, a picaresque place that in the noisy exuberance of gallant youth growing nation. But it is said that Harvard and America are decadent now. One rides in Chryslers...
...they don't come better than "Peggy Ann." The Fields-Rogers-Hart combination was responsible for the book and score; Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell, aided by a clever cast and a slim and agile chorus, romp through the zany-like plot; and the audience has a simply swell time the entire evening...
...went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning. From the shore he looked out at the midget fleet, already almost invisible on the quiet swell...
...wanted to be an altar boy, and wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
...Sure. Great. Where is he? In jail. Great. Why? Because he murdered. Swell. His father gets married. Do they drag the story out again for me-FIEND'S FATHER FINDS MATE...