Word: middlewestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for a "high-stepping, tastefully exposed majorette" is new in Ivy League circles. But the feminine addition to bands had been generally accepted in middlewestern and fall west colleges, which have recognized that "sex is here to stay...
...will dutifully loaf in honor of the Father of Our Country. But out in Cincinnati, next Tuesday will be lot more than a yearly holiday. For on that date, some thirteen Harvard Clubs will gather there for the first annual meeting of the Regional Harvard Clubs of five middlewestern states...
Unmentioned in geographies, Spoon River is a middlewestern small town that appears on every American literary map. It has been there since 1915, when Poet Edgar Lee Masters published 200-odd hard-bitten epitaphs from an imaginary small-town graveyard, entitled the collection Spoon River Anthology. Bizarre in 1915, the book's candor seems natural in 1937, thus serves as a calculus of the reading public's growing ability to accept life's poison with life's meat...
Died. Thomas M. ("Doc") Sayman, 83, famed Middlewestern manufacturer of Sayman's soaps, salves and patent medicines; in St. Louis. An oldtime medicine showman,-"Doc" Sayman set up his St. Louis soap factory in 1894, erected a glass case near the entrance and installed therein the stuffed skin of Dolly, the horse that had pulled him many a mile in his itinerant days. Fond of flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions...
...time in his law office, chucking out politicians who seek to corrupt his legal talents, Cagney joins the Department of Justice to avenge a gang-slaughter comrade. This Sir Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most of the first ten public...