Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some friends down in New Orleans and I asked them if they liked songs that were a bit--well you know what I mean. They said they didn't like 'em so well, but when I asked them about Miss West, they said they thought that she was just swell. Yes, she sure is an amazin' person...
...named Frederick Lewis Allen catalogued the events of a changing American from 1919 through the 29th of October 1929, and titled his book "Only yesterday." Some three years later a movie man out West got hold of a copy and thought he might make a swell movie out of it. Strangely enough, he was almost right. The film at the R. K. O. Keith's justifies much of its ballyhoo...
...Newark, N. J., excited Chauncey Harris, Negro, told police: "A big shiny car stops near me. A woman and a man in swell clothes get out. The man digs a hole. The woman takes a baby out of a suitcase, kisses it, puts it in the hole. The man throws dirt on it." Twelve police-men and detectives, three taxicabs full of reporters sped to the vacant lot indicated by Chauncey Harris, dug, disinterred a black kitten...
...poetical over your swell editorial on the Eliot House tutors' table...
...listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...