Word: swelling
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Wouldn't it be swell if this sudden and widely advertised spiritual faith of ours could be translated into everyday affairs in such simple forms as honesty and tolerance...
...Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, named Wright Windadge was in charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...
...people of Santa Ana soon found that they could not ask Robertson and Canella to the same parties without awkwardness. So they took sides. So did the other officers-and the cadets, most of whom thought that Canella was a ''swell guy," that Robertson was too severe...
...songs are lacking in vitality with the exception of "Thou Swell" and "To Keep My Love Alive." In the latter, Vivienne Siegal sings 16 verses describing how she managed to burn, poison, guillotine, stab, electrocute, gas, and hang her various husbands in order "to keep my love alive...
...Webster: toff, n. A dandy; swell. Brit. Slang...