Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do, you will have to be the kind of person who is charmed by hearing an improvident old grandpa (Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished on a pet hen named Miss Easter. Sunday Dinner may become a sentimental hit, but as an attempt to tell a moving story about real people, it is embarrassing...
...water got salt in it. Besides the cook there was a kid from Texas-he was only 18-who died from salt water. They would foam at the mouth, a kind of cream-colored foam, and their tongues would curl, and swell up in their mouths and their lips turn inside out. A gunner's mate died from injuries. Four others died of thirst: they just went out of their heads-they didn't drink salt water...
Although only 75 men have replied that they will definitely attend next term, the number of men entering in March is likely to exceed that figure. War veterans will probably swell the total as they did for the class...
Under the new regime some first rate drilling is being done over in the cage. This structure feels as though it would swell up balloon fashion any minute in these Charles River breezes. Battalion Commander Dave Schieder assured us privately that the structure is insured--as for us, well, we've stood through those industrial management classes...
Fred Astaire, having danced his way through a six-week U.S.O. tour of the European theater, arrived in Manhattan, reported that when doughboys asked "How does it feel to hold Rita Hayworth (or Ginger Rogers) in your arms?" he invariably replied: "Fine-they're swell dancers." Groaned the doughboys: "Aw, that's not what we meant...