Word: midwestern
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Wonderful Town's book, concerning the adventures of two ambitious midwestern sisters in naughty old Greenwich Village, lacks both continuity and imagination. A less skillful and enthusiastic production might have turned the play into a series of entertaining but isolated revues. Instead, Louise Bell and Susie Colt's direction has not only developed the contrast between the two sisters, it has managed to keep some continuity in the action...
...were admitted to the 'Cliffe as Sophomores. One reason why only three have taken the proffered advancement seems to be lack of publicity, although this defect is rapidly being remedied. More-over, educators are not always in a hurry to expedite young ladies' schooling. The headmistress of a Midwestern girls' school says, "Girls are not going into careers right after college, the way boys are. I don't see any reason for shortening a girl's education...
...agreement left Humphrey free and clear to set up the best-bet strategy for stopping the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Massachusetts Senator Jack Kennedy. That best bet: 1) get himself identified in the Senate and on the stump as the favorite son of Midwestern Democrats; 2) challenge and beat Jack Kennedy in the Midwest in the important Wisconsin presidential primary; 3) fight hard for the well-heeled support of the strongest anti-Kennedy forces, those still hoping against hope for Adlai Stevenson...
...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...