Word: middlewestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when their family moved to Sheffield, England and took a house near the Yorkshire moors. There they picked up a broad North Country dialect that stirred loud hoots of delight among their friends when they returned to Ohio in 1915. Recalls Cornelia: "We really spoke three languages: Middlewestern American, Yorkshire and the King's English...
...Tolstoy justice, and Vidor has less than four. The inevitable result is a telescoping of scenes and a hopscotching through the plot that scat ters attention from one leading character to another. The cast speaks in discordant accents, ranging from Cockney to Italian to Middle European to Middlewestern, and some of the most complex of Toltoy's people can only be hinted at: Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine) is a gutural swashbuckler; the eternal peasant, 'laton (John Mills), has time only...
MERGER may be in the offing between the $350 million Frisco System and the $103 million Central of Georgia. The two railroads would connect at Birmingham, and complement each other's business; the Middlewestern Frisco would send its trains east to the Atlantic and the Georgia operate 1,000 miles westward. Talk is at the stage where Frisco President Clark Hungerford is looking over the Georgia line...