Word: mid-western
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...clubs than in an art gallery. Nobody pays attention to art in museums, he complained, except Harvard-trained aesthetes with "delicate wrists and swinging gaits." Billy Rose took him at his word, and now a juicy Benton nude hangs in New York's Diamond Horseslioe, where fat and plodding mid-Western businessmen can admire it. The reverse might be just the ticket for Harvard: why not hold the Freshman Jubilee in Fogg's Renaissance court...
Even in Chicago, where war sentiment in the faculty is strong, no group has sprung up. Feeling in the mid-western colleges seems of a passive sort. "The war is three thousand miles away. Elaborate efforts at preparation will only tend to lead...
...Donald Peddie '41, of Minnesota, will bring his twangy mid-Western accent to the gridiron this fall as head cheerleader for the football games. High point of his performance will be the ride aboard the Army mule, which the fans should gopher...
...situation is quite unlike that at Mid-Western schools, where R. O. T. C. units supply the needed funds, or at Yale, where loyal alumni bear the burden. Here graduate donations are negligible, and attempts to get more are unsuccessful. That ground is already well-raked by the Alumni Association...
...Professor: "We understand what you mean, Dick, but I'd like to see you after school for a few minutes. Now, let's hear about our other mid-western invasion from Ducky Pond of Yale...