Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swell. Folks are always more open to suggestions when they're yelled...
...tone. (The Merlin is "hot swappable," which means you don't have to reboot your machine to use it.) If I were always on the road, traveling among big cities, it would be terrific never again to have to reconfigure my laptop's dial-up connections. It's also swell to be able to sit in a boring meeting and check e-mail or browse...
Need more convincing? Salaries of personal assistants usually fall between $50,000 and $80,000, but can swell beyond $100,000. Other perks often include medical insurance, paid vacation, free travel, a warm and temperate California climate and a front-row seat to how the wealthy live. Can't stand meetings? The Board of the Association of Celebrity Personal Assistants meet but once a month to discuss and exchange ideas about their jobs, and there is just one seminar planned for the near future, about examining security and celebrity stalking...
...great pity that Frank McCourt couldn't leave swell enough alone and retire as a memoirist after his stupendous success with Angela's Ashes. Unfortunately, the promise of a sequel is given pretty firmly in the pages of his Pulitzer-prizewinning best seller, and McCourt proves to be as good as his word. The dream of coming to America, particularly to New York City, that sustained him through his family's poverty in Limerick has come to pass by the opening pages of 'Tis (Scribner; 367 pages; $26). In the fall of 1959, at age 19, McCourt enjoys his first...
...guess the lesson is that if you're going to be a beggar in Cambridge, the assistance you'll receive will be related not to how much you actually need it, but how much of a swell, likeable person you are. And how long you've been at it. Or am I wrong...