Word: swells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to thank somebody up there for giving me a swell break on my book, They Died With Their Boots On (TIME. July...
...through the back-breaking gymnastics of shoving miniature ships around a linoleum floor? If it is to reduce the girth of the Generals -swell. But from a standpoint of gastronomical efficiency, which in some way effects brain maneuvers, it occurred to a layman that they might put their destroyers up on a table and walk around it, shoving their battleships, cruisers and destroyers in much easier posture...
With $5 in his pocket, bulky, vigorous Author Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) arrived in Manhattan after four months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys...
...sometimes based upon the assertion that we would bring vast quantities of the world's gold and silver here, only to be locked up in the United States Treasury. The phrase commonly used is that the gold and silver thus become sterile. At least, however, it goes to swell our monetary reserves. Loans in default are not very good backing for currency; indeed they might, without undue asperity, be described as also sterile...
...marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which he guzzled 1,080 steins, missed his goal by 1½ Ib. by only reducing from 259½ to 211. Said he: "I feel swell." He was lugged off to a hospital...