Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left their music as the mind's mute din To swell upon occasions as today...
...friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...
...some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...
...Violet Wells Norton of fraudulently demanding money from Cinemactor Clark Gable on the ground that he as "Frank Billings" was the father of her illegitimate daughter Gwendoline born in England in 1923. Wrote Mrs. Norton to Gable last March: "You and I understand each other. We could have a swell time...
Obstructionism to them is a one way street. A good disciple of the President will swell with anger when the Court blocks liberal legislation, but it is a very gingerly pat on the back that he gives the Court when it obstructs a Georgia Sedition...