Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joying life." Mr. Flint replied: "There is only one reason. Greed!" The interviewer protested: "Is it not because of ambition, a craving for power?" Mr. Flint repeated: "No! It is pure, green greed. . . . Greed, and greed alone, is the reason for a man's wanting to swell his wad million after million!" Mr. Flint, who as the "Father of Trusts"- made his money in shipping, electric lighting, rubber, chewing gum, munitions, etc., was asked the secret of moneymaking. Said he: "Well, God has favored some men highly and has given them gifts which they use to make money...
...Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey...
...light fog clung to the flat, glassy sea between Ambrose Light and Fire Island, N. Y. Captain Maurice Aubert had just ordered a change in course, and for a horrid second, thought he had run aground when the France, with nothing but a limpid swell around her, listed with violent suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil...
...Mating Season is something awful that happened in the Selwyn Theatre. It might be described as a drawing-room comedy with a Times Square touch. Before the high-class gentlemen marry the swell ladies they engage in dialogue that scintillates after the manner of the following...
...father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course...