Word: hoosier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ernie Pyle died, his syndicate offered newspapers a successor: Pyle's closest friend, fellow Hoosier and ex-boss, Lee Miller, who was already in the Pacific on a news assignment (TIME, May 14). Of the 396 newspapers which had printed Pyle's column, 151 would accept no substitutes. The rest decided to give Miller a try. Probably no one had more misgivings about the substitution than Miller himself. In his first column he wrote: "Maybe I can fill the space where his copy was run, but I'm fully aware that nobody will ever fill...
...crowd in U.S. political history. It was uncountable; no stadium could have held it; the estimates ranged as high as 500,000 and none less than 200,000.* To that crowd Wendell Willkie made a great, an eloquent-and an unpolitical-speech. It was poorly delivered; his word-slurring, Hoosier-twang delivery was a shock to citizens used to the sophisticated fluency of Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. But that speech was the expression of a good American's will to freedom-the keystone of his character, and the root of his antipathy to the New Deal...
...Hoosier parents were not well off. When a brother was born they sent young Spruance off to live temporarily with his grandmother in New Jersey, where he was watched over by three maiden aunts. He went back to Indianapolis for high school. There he was a diligent student, "neat and tidy," according to Miss Ella G. Marthens, who taught him Latin...
Signs in the store windows of Brook, Ind. (pop. 888) said simply: "Gone to the Funeral." No one had to ask whose. Indiana was burying its great Hoosier humorist, George...
...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...