Word: swellingly
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...feels that the "new jazz" is too avant-garde for the average cat. The jazz ground swell of the '30s found joints and after-hours sessions in every U.S. city and many a crossroads town. Everybody who cared could get hip and come on without a doctor's degree and a libretto. It wasn't cool, man, but it sure was solid-a real ball...
Playwright Macken acts Paddo with a good deal of skill. But instead of exploring Paddo with a scalpel, he merely keeps coming down on him like a sledge on an anvil, while his victims' endless denunciations swell matters into an anvil chorus...
...muggy night last week, two detectives walked out of their precinct station across from Louis Sobel Park in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...
...fall at the yard, and when Bolero was launched in 1949, he told his wife he expected it would be his last launching. In the last months of his life, he often asked to be carried out to the cockpit of his own yacht Polly, just to feel the swell of the sea again...
...skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever get my picture?" he asked. "Ah never been in New York...