Word: swells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drake and Penn meets this year. Compared in TIME were the 3,000 entries in the Penn carnival with the 2,000 at Drake. Not mentioned were the hundreds of high school, prep school, parochial school and grade school entries to which the Penn management caters, and which swell considerably its list of entries. Does this make the meet great? Not compared were the results of the respective meets, to most people far more important than the number of contestants. In 14 comparable events, athletes competing at Des Moines, under similar fine weather conditions, excelled those competing at Philadelphia...
...plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced $225,000 off the Bureau's budgetary request...
H.T.A.L. was a thriving organization in this University in 1886. Although its membership drives did not greatly swell its ranks, this group enjoyed the favor and moral support of many faculty members and many more faculty wives. Its meetings featured speakers of the calibre of William James and Edward Everett Hale...
...swell being a nudist. Since I have been here in New York I have had lobsters almost every night and real French champagne. My press agent said for me to say that the girls in the night clubs besmirch the cause of nudism but I think they are very sweet. I would like to be in a night club myself...
...mother and father think nudism is swell. It does not keep us out late at night and we have a healthy atmosphere to work in. Of course, my girl-friends think we have orgies and all that, but I never had an orgy yet. ... I am not engaged now but I have been engaged to four men and they thought it was all right for me to be a nudist...