Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the time for the drive was extended until last night, it was impossible to secure complete returns. The money received yesterday brought the total sum almost to the total, and it is expected that complete returns would swell the quota to the desired amount...
...playing Hamlet as a drawing-room entertainment for Christmas, 1867. The melancholy Dane, a likely stripling of 14, wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
...TIME, May 18) he managed by process of amalgamation to swell his party's numbers from 100 to 150, making it the second largest party in the Diet. He began negotiations with the Seiyuhonto President, M. Tokonami, urged him to join the Seiyukai Party which would then have an absolute majority of the votes with 266 seats...
...seems there were a couple of prize fighters and they got into a swell house on Fifth Avenue...