Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession. To Admiral Clark had fallen the assignment of pretending to lead his force as an enemy fleet to the capture...
...directly into the records of the British Parliament, and he was just patriotic enough to smile. On the other hand, the documents of the United States Government developed out of Anthropology; a fact which be thought might have pleased that Secretary of State who did so much to swell them, William Jennings Bryan. One of the most apt arrangements to his mind, however, was Religion, Bibles, and Explosives together...
Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
...Soviet officials I have dealt with are cultured and really swell persons! They are paying me so much that in three years I shall be independently wealthy. Many times of late I have awakened in the night, terrified lest my good fortune was a dream...
...minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House Physician Joel Boone ordered him to cut short the ordeal, retire upstairs. Behind were left several thousand unhandshaken guests. Next day the President appeared with...