Word: iowan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sergel takes for his opening theme the problem of the unmarried mother. To cut the issue clear he starts his principal character at the age of nineteen in the provincial Iowan town in which her lower middle class family has lived. With all the exaggerated sensationalism of a reporter on a yellow journal covering a four alarm fire, the author devotes nearly half of his novel to her experience with maternity beginning with a petting party and ending with a wedding...
Doubtless there are times when slang is appropriate but there are also times when the use of correct English is indispensable and it would be well for many of us if we could remember to talk English once in a while. --Daily Iowan, University of Iowa...
...snobs, just scared. --Daily Iowan...