Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presents to men in Northern Ireland. Australia, Iceland, Trinidad, Egypt, Midway or Brooklyn Navy Yard had better send things that are wanted. Last week, just in time for givers, the Department Store Economist published the results of a poll in which 1,000 servicemen rated 51 potential gifts as "swell," "fair" or "junk...
...sleeveless sweaters is about as bad. She would do better to have her picture (and pictures of friends and family) taken and send them along. She could send a pocketknife or, better still, a pocket Bible. Over 49% of the soldiers and 58% of the sailors rated Bibles swell, would rather have the whole thing than just the New Testament...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
...gladly make sacrifices, if we have any vague idea of what is expected of us. ... If [the Government] wants my car, wants to put soldiers in our spare bedroom . . . then just say the word. ... If my services are needed in the shipyards, on the assembly line, then I say, swell. Give us a program, and we'll live up to it. We'll go through with it without a whimper. But until that time comes, under unified direction, I wish they'd quit yelling at us. We're all worn out, and we haven...
Earlier she asserted in an interview for the CRIMSON, "Harvard boys though naturally unruly from all their severe studying, can be very, very charming and swell...