Word: midwestern
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...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...
Rocking-chair Salesman Harry Boling is no man to sit back in his rocker and let the world go by. As a Midwestern representative of the King Specialty Manufacturing Co. of Mayfield, Ky., he sold $100,000 worth of furniture last year, hopes to double it this year. Nevertheless, Salesman Boling thought he was missing a potentially huge market, and wrote to his Congressman, Indiana's Republican Earl Wilson, to ask him to do something about it. Wilson solemnly entered Boling's tongue-in-cheek letter in the Congressional Record...
...least expect them to conform to standards of dress and appearance which have thus far set us aside from the type of college student current in the ads of the Coca-Cola Company. To the casual observer, the Yard must appear only slightly different from the campus of the midwestern coeducational university where faddists with their beanies, blue jeans, and dangling shirt tails rule...
Theoretically, these radio amateurs can be of vital importance in times of emergency. Although the chances are small that they might have to supplement regular communications channels--almost an annual chore for midwestern hams in flood areas--they can be of assistance in relaying messages from other disaster areas to relatives and rescue workers...