Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...
Last week Popovich, now 36, arrived in the U.S. with pretty wife Vjera, to take up his new job as ambassador from Communist Dictator Tito. Dressed to the nines, like an oldtime bourgeois-diplomat swell, Popovich portentously told reporters in New York: "I am confident, and so is my government, that we will meet [in the U.S.] with ever-increasing understanding and ever greater assistance." He criticized "bloc systems" in the world, charging with lofty impartiality that they led to war-"from whichever side the blocs originate...
...given the job. Herbert Fields, the son of vaudeville comedian Lew Fields, introduced them, and from then almost until Hart's death in 1943 the two worked together. From 1919 on Rodgers and Hart turned out more than a thousand songs, including an extraordinary number of hits, like "Thou Swell," "Ten Cents a Dance," "Falling In Love with Love," "Blue Moon," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Lover," and "Small Hotel...
...Yeah, I like her. She's a woman. She's fine. She sings a couple of swell songs in the picture, too. Can't beat a French chicken for singing French songs...
...ground swell, but some waves were forming...