Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trustworthy despatches announced the complete destruction of an entire "Ironsides" brigade, 2,000 rebel casualties. 7,000 rebels captured and disarmed, and the flight northward of Chang Fa-K'uei himself. Swollen bodies floating like logwood down to Canton bore mute corroboration...
...limit to the potential value of U. S. securities, where could the line be drawn between farsightedness and folly? Speculation is the shadow of industry thrown forward on the wall of the future. It had been thrown a long way forward during the late Bull Market, its size swollen, its perspective distorted. But though it was a magnified picture, it was not an imaginary picture. Behind the shadow of Speculation there was still the substance of Prosperity...
...third time in recent years St. Louis last week saw swollen balloons sway foolishly for the start of a James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. The race has occurred each year since 1906, except for the War period...
Charles Clark Younggreen of Milwaukee, at the culminating Berlin banquet of the International Advertising Association of which he is president (TIME, Aug. 26), beheld a spider crawling out from beneath his right cuff. Last week, his arm. spider-bitten, swollen, infected, required lancing, draining, dressings, rest...
...English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England...