Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith is sure that Hitler, "the phenomenal Cinderella-boy from Braunau, has had a swell time." But, because of the failure in Russia, the Home Front's decline, and the growing disunity in the nation, "it would appear to be getting on toward midnight. Even with his expertness at it, it is highly unlikely that he can turn this particular clock back...
...enjoying Manhattan? "Yes, this is swell. But I would kinda like to get back to normal life sometimes...
Romer on anatomy is considered quaint and, in 1941-42, difficult to follow, due to sacrificing organization to speed in cutting a full year course down to a half. Redfield on physiology is comfortably slow and a "swell fellow" and the course is well worth taking after anatomy...
...type. Her first work (last year), The G-String Murders, was a murder-mystery best-seller (24,000 copies). Her second mystery, Mother Finds a Body, due for fall publication, "rolled right through the typewriter by itself." ("I'd no more think of saying that was a swell performance when I come off the stage-but when I finish a piece of writing, I read it over and I say to myself, 'Say, that's a hell of a hunk of writing...
According to Jaakko, the meet "was nip and tuck all the way, and we won because we had more fight and guts than the Yale boys. The whole team did a swell job," he said. But he warned of Dartmouth's power...