Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faribault, Minn, organist who had lost his own sight as a result of typhoid fever. Their father taught them Braille, sent them off to study the piano. The twins worked hard, and in time, were ready to play in public. Soon they became a familiar sight on Midwestern concert stages...
These lines belong to a fast-beat patter song, Missouri Walking Preacher, written in 1949. It was recorded and did fairly well in Midwestern jukeboxes, though it never made the hit parade...
...Arky had made good. From the scorching cotton fields of Arkansas he had moved into the rich, tough mob that ran the rackets of a Midwestern city. Now he could wear tailored suits, fondle thick rolls of money, enjoy the taste of power over men. That seemed real success...
...which begs for trilling piano accompaniment, seems too naive for Valentino to have enacted even on the screen of the '20s. Its Technicolored Valentino (Anthony Dexter), trysting with the actress wife (Eleanor Parker) of his director (Richard Carlson), pours out his mockpassionate speeches in a thin stream of Midwestern nasality...
Lundsgard the Magnificent. "Oh, let yourself be happy!" cries Hayden to himself, and falls in love, first with the city of Florence, and second with a Midwestern female scholar named Dr. Olivia Lomond. The affair with Olivia reaches its decisive stage in a chilly mountain inn. Gushes Hayden: "I'm not fit to love you!" Counters Olivia: "The wild highlander in me has come to life again . . . thank God. Dearest Hayden . . . quit smothering yourself...