Word: swellingly
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Ensconced at a table in Jakey Wirth's swell beer saloon they were partaking of hohn kukken and tongue blood pudding...
...writing this note in the hope that it will swell the number who will write to you protesting this last issue...
...college presidents of fifty years ago foreseen that baby football would develop to so huge a monster, it is certain they would have nursed him with some alarm. Had they foreseen that a part of their educational system was to grow, and swell, and put on airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit...
...brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni will do well to reflect on the matter lest they in turn may offer a target for well-directed, if kindly, arrows...
...know the truth. All is not peace within this genial square. For the pipes of Pan--a tin pan--suddenly shock the literary browser with their metallic wails. And then, like locusts on a drowsy summer day, every steam pipe in that crewhile haven of peace pipes up to swell the radiator chorus, and the pandemonium of a boiler factory fills the sanctuary...