Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swell Job, Mr. Smith." Even this brief sampling makes apparent one reason Mr. Smith and his Bureau rarely get into the papers. Most of their jobs are the unspectacular, long-range, beneficial sort which do not make news. For the Government as a whole is run a great deal better than the citizenry knows. Mistakes, hard names, quarrels make more headlines than peaceful progress. Any Congressman could make the front pages any day by standing up and calling Harold Smith a waster and a no-good. But when, at the end of his Appropriations Committee testimony, Alabama...
...Ground swell, a time...
...this month I wish that you would hurry up and get here because I am getting the bug, too....You asked me about some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether it was he or Caesar that got killed in the second...
...thanks in advance to Doug Baker for arranging the swell blowout for Monday night, and to "Had" Haddaway for consenting to toast-mast (er?). If we can keep up with Had's double talk, things'll be fun. It starts flowing at 1800, at the Harvard Club of Boston, Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues (Mass. Ave. Station), and first on the programme are "unlimited cocktails" until 1845. Featured on the dinner will be Mushroom Soup, Roast Beef and Strawberry Sundae, garnished with Midshipman entertainment, some tavern harmony led by "Jake" and a very few remarks from the honored guests. Captain McIntosh...
Since the mentioning of the swell Chicks at the Wellesley affairs in this column, the lists have been filled with prospects and those who weathered the storm last weekend were well rewarded ... Nary a black eye in the whole crowd ... they must be pulling their punches...