Word: mid-western
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...cornfed prima donna will scarcely recognize her in Follow Your Heart. On her Kansas wheat farm, whither she retired in a huff in 1929, she has trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs of charred bread...
...will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted ill will of their wives, and is ridiculed when she attempts landscape architecture a la Provence. She befriends a fakir of an artist, who misconstrues her attentions as love, but so embroils matters...
Eager has attempted a serious domestic problem hidden in a mass of racy dialogue and superficial cleverness. Mr. John Barnard as an intelligent, mid-western husband could not remake his wife because of her madcap friends. Similarly, Miss Hall could not remake her madcap friends to accept her husband into their hearts. Miss Lois Hall reveals herself coyly as being in that "amusing condition," which should retie the severed bonds but doesn't. Mr. John Flower, whose role consists of a stalk across the stage in the second act with one deep-voiced remark is satisfyingly and gratifyingly manly...
When the depression hit five mid-western states, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin, their combined enrollment dropped from 2.7% to 1.8%. The advent of the fellowships jumped the figure...