Word: midwestern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Illinois and missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed out an isolationist blast saying...
When Dan Beard was a boy he used to go fishing in Bank Lick, between the Confederate and Federal lines near the Ken tucky-Ohio border. In those days, if you were lucky, you could get 92-lb. catfish in Midwestern rivers. The boys called themselves Boone's Scouts; they would crawl on their hands and knees if the pickets began shooting at each other over their heads. Once Dan was fishing in Bank Lick when a beech tree suddenly exploded in the quiet afternoon, split as if hit by lightning. It had stopped a solid ball from...
Many wild orchids from Colombia for the Air Express edition of TIME ! I have been gathering crude rubber in the Amazon, eating beefsteaks in the Argentine, climbing the Andes, and picking coffee in Colombia during the past four months-writing a get-acquainted series of articles for our Midwestern farmers on how our Latin American neighbors live, what they grow, and how they grow it. That has brought me up to date south of the border, but behind the times back home. That is, until I got the Air Express edition of TIME which enabled me to sit down...
Magically reversed among Minneapolis newspapermen were the previous day's diatribes against able, round-faced John Cowles; no more was he called a coldblooded Midwestern Frank Munsey (paper-folder extraordinary of his day). With this deal John Cowles had taken Minneapolis as his father before him, with the Register & Tribune, took Des Moines and the State of Iowa...
...Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball...