Word: swellingly
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Maurice Chevalier, cinemactor (Innocents of Paris), adored playboy of Paris music halls, returned home from the U. S. Cried he to a surging crowd of welcomers at the Gare St. Lazare: "L'Amerique, c'est swell! Nouveau York, c'est swell! L'Hollywood, c'est la plus swell...
...advantage of "rajah" is that you can swell it into "maharajah" for a "tycoon" of superlative grandeur...
...gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell guy." The new caddy soon learns that though Mr. Doubleday plays golf only a little under 100, "swell guy" is a good description...
...French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...
...stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could only end in a colossal smash." In other words, if business in general had the money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock Market, pictured as a kind of financial safety valve in which surplus funds may harmlessly be blown off. Mr. Simmons did not claim, however...