Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bewildered in Canada, the children were "rescued" by a U.S. "millionaire" who took them to Connecticut, but whose conversation was largely confined to the use of the phrase "That's swell." Not so language-conscious as a refugee friend, whose father told her he would rather have her torpedoed at sea than "acquire an American accent," Caroline and Eddie were nevertheless amazed by the description of an American automobile accident as "a bloody mess," and thoroughly shocked at the American expression "all balled...
Scene I: Somewhere off the Atlantic Coast the Potomac is hove to in a light swell. A big grey war vessel comes over the horizon. Franklin Roosevelt is taken to it. The warship sets its course to the northeast...
...listen, men, if it happens again That a hidebound old officer's near, Don't whistle and yell when you see something swell -Be content with a general leer! LEWIS F. OWEN Oradell...
Britain and Russia hoped the trickle would soon swell to a torrent and wash away their apprehensions. Prime British fear is of a back stab like the Nazi-inspired revolt in Iraq last spring of Rashid Ali El-Gailani. For at almost every compass point from Teheran, the Shah's capital, the Russo-British positions are potentially vulnerable...
This reduction did not necessarily mean that the Battle of the Atlantic was going much better for the British. In June Britain had no Grecian disaster or Cretan fiasco to swell her shipping losses to the figures of April and May. Nevertheless June was 15% better than the monthly average since the Battle of the Atlantic began in earnest in June 1940. Why, when things were looking up, did the British...