Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brand-new fact faced the U. S. people last week-peacetime conscription. On Registration Day, set for Oct. 16, more than 16,000,000 young Americans will register for the draft that is to swell the ranks of the U. S. Army to the unprecedented peacetime figure of nearly 1,000,000 men by January 1941. If there was grumbling or kidding among the young men most concerned (aged 21 to 36), there was not enough of it to get into the papers. A few "youth leaders" denounced the draft, but youth itself appeared prepared to take things as they...
...collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where he was a society swell in the '80s and '90s, he spent most of his later life in France. There, under the impression that he was leading a tumultuous and crowded existence, he drifted from race track to race track, from hotel to hotel, from gambling casino to gambling casino, with a miscellaneous...
Grandfather Berry had been "a grand old swell" who wore lavender trousers strapped under patent-leather boots. Father Wall was less dashing, but he left his son some good advice: "Never mind who or how charming your lady friend may be, always leave the money on the mantelpiece." When he was 18, young Berry's father and grandfather each left him more than $1,000,000. He soon ran through it, lived the rest of his life on somewhat less than $1,000,000 which his mother providently tied up in trust for him. Sometimes he eked out this...
...speech began to swell; the crowd began to roar. At each challenge it rose-the challenge to manufactured class hatred, the challenge of poverty, the challenge to increase productivity ("Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong"), the challenge of greater hardships ("In these months ahead of us every man who works in this country-whether he works with his hands or with his mind-will have to work a little harder. ... You will have to be hard of muscle, clear of head, brave of heart...
Sold in London by the British Red Cross to swell relief coffers: two books heavily blue-penciled by their onetime owner, corpulent Nazi Air Marshal Hermann Goring, for 350 guineas (about $1,400); an autographed copy of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's My Early Life for 13 guineas (about...