Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobby-sized green-and-gold Hollywood office last week, a wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
...spokesman charged Russia last week with "an astonishing lack of common international courtesy" in the Baltic plane incident (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a 67-year-old correspondent listened impassively and scribbled notes. He wore a conservative suit, glasses and a brooding look; he might have been the correspondent for a Midwestern daily. But Larry Todd is reporting for no corn-belt readers. He is senior correspondent of the official Russian news agency Tass in Washington, D.C., and registered as such with the Department of Justice...
...bland statement of fact may leave the reader in any one of three states of mind. For the reader may have read and laughed hysterically at Shulman's first three books; he may have read them and laughed hardly at all; or he may never have heard of this midwestern humorist...
...total monopoly of your letters column. The avalanche of opinion seems to have been perpetrated, innocently enough, by a small piece of flannel headgear ("The Red Menace"), and been swept into the rhetorical realms of women's rights, regimentation, Freedom of the Individual, Harvard's parity or superiority to Midwestern universities, etc. We have suddenly become a Burning Issue. We are reminded: (1) Beanies are cute (2) Beanies are ugly (3) We are indulging a degrading herd instinct (4) We are following the dictates of Free Enterprise and by-golly-have-a-right-to (5) Women have no business...