Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out. A distant cannon boomed the hour of noon. From the bell tower fell the slow notes of God Save the King. The crowd stood motionless; until the last echo died there was no movement but the slow swell of the flags...
...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...
Wherever Benito Mussolini was, he passed his 60th birthday there. A deflated Mr. Toad, no longer could he swell visibly and let himself go with uplifted voice before supposedly enraptured audiences. From his ex-colleague Adolf Hitler came an anniversary gift: the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had written: "I teach you the Superman. . . . Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein is nothing contemptible." But from his ex-people came only bitter remembrance. Milan's Corriere della Sera called him "an aged corrupter," now as good as buried...
Margie thinks more of Harvard men now than she used to. She still thinks that the Columbia boys are the nicest, but since she was shown such a swell night by the boys from Adams House last May she thinks more of Harvard...
...mess of swellegent gals to dance with over there. In fact--and form a single line for this one willya--the girls have been outnumbering the men. Are they nice? Aw, heck, I've done enough suggesting already--just drop over and find out for yourself! They are really swell looking gals--every one of 'em--and you've got our guarantee to that...