Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been presented at Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation of the B. E. F.'s ejection from Washington, the establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial...
...unfortunately the habit of undergraduate journalism to damn everything within its sight, giving little thought save to the sensation invariably subsequent. This may swell the coffers, but in the long run it will prove a poor policy. (Name withheld with regrets...
...cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good art. Clearcut motivation is a prime essential to good drama; in this respect "Blonde Venus" is found sadly wanting, and therein lies its fundamental weakness...
...live in a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National!" enthused Mr. Hamilton. "All of the 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. My salary is paid monthly in American money and I have special permission to take money out of Russia. I tell you it's a paradise for an architect like...
...those to come alive was the girl in blue in the new Chesterfield cigaret advertisements. Said she, named Hazel Grace: "I take care of my aged grandmother. All artists are swell, just swell. I have never been insulted." Another was little black-eyed Dorothy Hart, one of Artist Haskell Coffin's magazine cover models. Said silver-haired Mrs. George Snyder: "I have been insulted. An artist actually had the nerve to ask if my hair was genuine...