Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only reason I'm mixing myself up in this is that I want to get something done about the way the girls are treated over at the Union," Miss Warner declared. "I know they have to have discipline, but they could still be decent. Oh, the captains are swell to your face, but they go around and squeal to Miss Murray when your back is turned...
There is no necessity to swell here the already monumental literature on the subtle antithesis between the academic and the "worldly" mind. But it may be worthwhile to recall that this difference does exist, and that it is of primary importance in estimating the validity of the objections to the N.R.A. new being borne by every little zophyr which wanders too close to the cloistered universities of the land. The outstanding facts, so often voiced, so rarely comprehended, of our period are that the growing rigidities, of our economic structure and the psychology which is at once its cause...
...Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen?" Mr. O'Connell paused to adjust a bright red scarf around his neck. "Oh, they're swell...
...Yale is a good college. Rudy Vallee went there, you know. And he is sure a swell fellow, even though he does have trouble with his wives." So says Pat Campbell (pronounced Camel), doorman of the British Empire Building at New York's Radio City. "I like Princeton too; who was it that went there? Oh yes, Woodrow Wilson...
...fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally a shout went up from the bridge of the U. S. S. Gannet, where stood Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet: "He's up!" Plane No. 5 had found a breeze off a point of land, had climbed on it. At five...