Word: mid-western
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Seven men and music make the story of Helma Seymour, a pretentious life cycle of a U. S. prima donna which begins in a mid-western town and revolves ironically to a prosperous and almost respectable middle...
Gasoline Pumps. Bennett Pumps Corp. of Muskegon, Mich., joined with Service Station Equipment Co. Ltd. of Canada-a $6,500,000 proposition. Wayne Pump Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., is negotiating to buy a number of mid-western companies that make service station equipment...
...Kitchen, Only 38) and George Middleton (The House of a Thousand Candles, Potty with a Past), husband of Fola La Follette (pioneer Lucy Stoner, daughter of the late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will...
...Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang, the drawl of Kentucky and Texas still lingers in his speech...
...Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality of universality...