Word: swellingly
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...sometimes based upon the assertion that we would bring vast quantities of the world's gold and silver here, only to be locked up in the United States Treasury. The phrase commonly used is that the gold and silver thus become sterile. At least, however, it goes to swell our monetary reserves. Loans in default are not very good backing for currency; indeed they might, without undue asperity, be described as also sterile...
Cabmen who motored Carl Rettich around Providence, R. I. thought he was a rich doctor or lawyer. He was a personable man-tall, robust, black-haired, elegantly dressed. Only his eyes, cold and unsmiling as a cat's, were discomforting. But most of downtown Providence thought him a "swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick...
...marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which he guzzled 1,080 steins, missed his goal by 1½ Ib. by only reducing from 259½ to 211. Said he: "I feel swell." He was lugged off to a hospital...
...better. Even G. O. Pundit Mark Sullivan, noting the impressive volume of corporate refundings, declared last week: "The result is that the aorta between capital and industry has begun to function. Because the reservoirs of capital are teeming, this flow, with the headway it has now acquired, may readily swell into a great business revival...
...attitude of most alumni is indicative of the present need for placing the liberal arts college on trial. Most of them look upon their undergraduate days as "four swell years." College is for many of them an oasis in a desert of hardship and struggle. While we all agree that these years of undergraduate life should be as pleasurable as possible we feel that college has failed in its primary purpose if a majority of its graduates are unable to look upon their campus lives as anything but a four-year summer camp...