Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell of a lot of country to get here. . . . Came over Palestine-Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. I ought to make a good Sunday-School teacher when I get back and I think I will. . . . Met General Chennault day before yesterday and he sure is a swell egg. . . . We're the first of the P-38s over here...
...Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent individual ("My friends tell me that when I get mad my head seems to swell and my eyes to stick out") who has been a central figure in some of the most turbulent episodes in modern U.S. industrial history...
...Syntax. In his spare time, Rowlandson became a great London swell. Extra money for gambling debts could the always be leading had print from publisher Rudolph of the Ackermann, time. For Ackermann, Rowlandson illustrated the popular satirical picture book Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. (Today a Rowlandson-illustrated first edition has brought as much as $3,100 from book collectors...
...double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds she is about to have a baby: "God is swell...
Youse guys is the nuts. Espetchilly I likes de swell way youse wrestles the Englitch langwitch. Your form and style is de best...