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Word: swelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular but not too pious, accepted his mission call with good grace. While the other missionaries were holding a religious meeting in a Manhattan street last week, he confessed: "I didn't go. Another fellow and I went over to the Hollywood Restaurant instead. I thought it was swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fifth | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

here Comes the Band is all right if you don't mind Ted Lewis. We do--very much. And the Dionne Quintuplets are swell if you like them. But frankly it wasn't one of our best afternoons at the University...

Author: By L. P. Jr., | Title: Tbe Moviegoer | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

...chicken and dumplings, potatoes, salad, hot rolls, green beans and ice cream and cake for dessert. About half an hour after dinner the three slipped back into the camp and came up to the director. 'Please, we want to come back. We think it's pretty swell here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: I Don't Know | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Robert Benchley as an inebriated traveller is so pleasantly silly that he almost walks off with the movie. He has never been funnier and contributes just the touch needed to make China Seas a swell show instead of a mere tour do force in melodrama...

Author: By L. P. Jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

...cranium of Harvard's new head of the Student Council is beginning to swell badly. He has received has first official communique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

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