Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sportsman circulation, necessarily limited, is guaranteed 15,000. While about 18,000 copies are delivered, no effort is made to swell that number. At the age of two the magazine began to make money. Distinctive as the magazine is The Sportsman staff, principal names of which appear in Boston and Manhattan Social Registers. Editor Danielson, chief founder, may add to his signature the initials M. F. H.-Master of Fox Hounds of Groton Hunt Club. (The Sportsman is the official organ of the Master of Fox Hounds Association, representing 70 clubs.) His forefathers settled Danielson, Conn...
Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty...
...language a damnable thing that our fellow citizens should be allowed to feed their vanity on a dish which dulls and warps the brain. If there is a law against this, I should like to see TIME advocate its strict enforcement. If there is none, at least do not swell and pamper vanity by giving to the snatchers after Chinese, Papist or French ribbons the free publicity in which they dote. REGINALD SUTTON...
...British exhibit is unsatisfactory. The modern French collection (Puvis de Chavannes, Corot, Manet, Monet) is also sparse. But six Metropolitan galleries will be opened on March 11 containing the famed Havemeyer collection (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929) which will greatly swell the museum's resources with fine specimens of Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Degas, El Greco, Millet, Puvis de Chavannes, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great...