Word: midwestern
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...Also, if Midwestern teams were scheduled, our Eastern opponents would be justifiably angered at our implied suggestion that they just aren't worth time." (Incidentally, the Yale freshmen also have a streak of over 100 victories going...
...20th century America, fashions in art have altered just as often and drastically as fashions in women's dress. Cocks of the walk in the 1930s were three Midwestern artists who are scarcely mentioned today: Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Their paintings (opposite and overleaf), included in a current retrospective show at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nostalgic reminders of a vanished era in recent U.S. history...
...work, although he never quite shook the slavishness to subject matter that is its mark. But Curry did have the boldness to conceive a Cineramic view of the land he loved. At the height of his fame, he called Wisconsin Landscape "my greatest." Grant Wood, like Benton, sowed some Midwestern oats in Paris. There he sported shocking pink whiskers and a Basque beret, painted hazy, impressionistic canvases. Back home in his native Iowa, he mainly taught art for a living. He shaved his round face smooth, and assumed an exterior as mild as a cup of Ovaltine...
Pictures taken at the hearing were for the most part handled unsensationally. This was not, however, always the rule. The Peru, Ind. "Tribune" printed a picture of Kamin gesticulating while testifying and captioned it "Harvard Man Confesses." Roughly 20 small and medium-sized midwestern and western papers printed underneath a sydicated photo of Furry laughing, "Admits...
...United Press was liberal in sentiment and conservative in style. Although it did not reach so many readers as did the AP version, the UP account was handled in much the same way in the newspapers which used it as was the AP. But this time it was the midwestern papers, particularly those in Ohio and Indiana, which tended to go short on the story. As big a paper as the Pittsburg "Press" built the whole story around Kamin and left out Furry completely. Other papers did the reverse...