Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Topicker Simeon Strunsky, who usually does, saw the brighter side of things in the long lines waiting to buy papers at the plants. Wrote he: "It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore. . . ." Other newsmen felt as if they were talking into a dead mike...
Since then the Red Cross has been run ning tours to the studio. Hundreds of G.I.s have heard that Picasso is a swell guy and that he can-be seen any morning between eleven and one. Picasso, who cherishes his morning salons and prefers his . conversations in French and Spanish, finally began to feel like an exhibit in a zoo. And he got sick & tired of K rations...
Conway, Britain's famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven...
...better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then...
Reporter Sprigle was considerably disappointed at not being sent to jail. "That would give me a swell dateline," he said...