Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...
Your advertisement a swell piece of advertising, but why did you omit your address from...
...banquet was stuffingly delicious, the histrionics were funny to the serious and hilarious to those in the mood, the dance was long, loud and swell, the company brilliant, comely and congenial in the Dunster manner. Although the less progressive Dunsterites had feared that the mixture of Christmas party (heretofore utterly a stag affair) and dance might not set too well even the most misogynistic were forced to admit that Henry Dunster's House had a roaring fine party Wednesday night...
...Hopkins, U. S. Relief Administrator, by all means. For 19 months, he has had the most difficult, thankless, and yet the most important job in the U. S.?barring no one?that of feeding about 20 million U. S. men, women, children?and he's done a damn swell...
Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...