Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every social climber. Eighteenth Century Author Tobias Smollett, for one, sometimes looked with bilious eye at "what is called the fashionable company at Bath . . .† The number of people, and the number of houses continue to increase; and this will ever be the case, till the streams that swell this irresistible torrent of folly and extravagance shall either be exhausted or turned into other channels, by incidents and events which I do not pretend to foresee...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...
...space of five solid minutes, while photographers shot him, radiomen adjusted microphones, moviemen flapped their arms around his head in signals, he held his mouth in a radiant, frozen smile. "How do you feel, Governor Dewey?" In an emphatic baritone, pausing after each word, he said: "I feel swell...
...most likely sufferers are reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload themselves with responsibilities and then get tense when they find that they can't finish the outsize jobs they have tackled. Their "pernicious emotional states" make the arteries in their heads swell, causing the excruciating pain of migraine...
Under the tumult and the shouting, observers felt the confident, mighty ground swell of a party moving forward-a party that, after long exile, knew itself once more as representative of the nation...