Word: middlewestern
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SHERWOOD ANDERSON and H. L. Mencken pound the desk with defiant Middlewestern fists. There is none like Dreiser--a Gulliver among literary Lilliputians! they bellow. Everyone must take a week's vacation and read "An American Tragedy"; nothing short of a colossal achievement. Simultaneously other critics of an equal eminence rise in anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they...
...veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what...
...politics has been marked by his strict adherence to the underlying principles of true Americanism, and his persistent endeavor to co-operate with the people in every conceivable manner. As early as 1887 the fame of his integrity as a lawyer had spread broadcast throughout the Western and Middlewestern States. As a believer in the principles and policies of the Republican Party, Governor Lowden has been exceedingly active and influential in the councils of the State of Illinois and of the nation...