Word: middlewesterners
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...then draws from newsreels to document lengthening breadlines, middlewestern duststorms and ragged transients riding freight trains through a despondent land in search of work. Mora uses his selections from Depression vintage cinema to juxtapose reality and fantasy as he pans the gloomy landscape that characterized the era. While he often contrasts the grim reality of life during the Depression with such fanciful films as Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Ginger Rogers, he uses similar clippings to demonstrate a haunting similarity between fiction and fact in the 1930s. Random scenes from King Kong (1932-33), for example, invite a comparison...
tanley F. Teele, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, has announced the appointment two middlewestern business to the school's faculty...
...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...