Word: swells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where have the homeless gone? Two places mainly: 1) into Algerian cities to swell urban slums, or 2) into "regroup-ment centers" under French army supervision. In either place they make a mockery-or else a very distant promise-of De Gaulle's historic Constantine pledge last November to Algerian Moslems of eventual parity with French standards of living...
...this time it will be different," Hanfstaengl declares. "I expect to have a swell time, and get a warm welcome. Why not? I'm as anti-Nazi now as they come...
...continuous inspiration, a font of comfort and reassurance to all about him, as he occupied the exposed position at the very bottom of his class. Everyone enjoyed him. One of his roommates remembers that "Courtney slept most of the time, except when he played cards. He was swell. His mother sent him brownies." Another recalls, "He seldom gave anyone trouble. You see, he talked only on infrequent occasions, and then not very well...
...annex will be a "coordinate" branch of Kent, will have its own faculty (half women), and will slowly swell to a full four forms by adding one new class each year. For two years there will be no mixed classes, and after that only in some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds...
Pretty Political? After a general gasp came a lively babble. Said Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks: "Swell idea. It's a knockout." Chimed Agriculture's Ezra Taft Benson: "I'm no politician. But I think it's a great idea." Finally the President got a word in. "By golly, I like that idea. But it's pretty political, isn't it, Meade?" Replied Alcorn: "And how! Mr. President. But it's good politics, and will be good for the country...