Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chair as Curtis president, Vice President Fred Albert Healy rose to report (without giving money figures) on net advertising revenue-for the Post, 1.6% over 1936. "It's nothing to crow about," said homely Mr. Healy who, like most Curtis executives has not lost his Midwestern inflection, "but I can't say we feel bad, either...
Fourteen. U. S. citizens got their first comprehensive look at Mexican art in a traveling show sent by the American Federation of Arts seven years ago. Last week another comprehensive, more up-to-date traveling show on its first stop in Chicago gave Midwestern art followers an idea of where Mexican artists are going. New work by Orozco was not included because that powerful artist is busy on a mural in Guadalajara. Consensus among the discerning was that without him the flame of revolutionary art below the Rio Grande looked somewhat pale...
...general rah-rah of autumn, digging the meaning elbow of their buffoonery into the ribs of the football fans. Self-styled apotheoses of the wacky, the Brothers pull on helmets and shoulder pads, copy the old one-minute-to-go formula in triplicate, climax the film by beating rival Midwestern for dear old Lombard when Harry Ritz throws a high pass, catches it himself, and runs for the winning touchdown...
...mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers for themselves and friend, continued employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded, only adverse scores being when the Ritzes play. On the eve of the Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally, has him declared ineligible. Chief Indian-baiter Bob Hayner (Dick Baldwin) is suspected of informing on the star, but plays heads-up football, clears himself of suspicion after the Ritzes clinch the victory, and regains the favor of the coach's daughter...
...TIDE OF TIME-Edgar Lee Masters-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Author of Spoon River Anthology tells again, this time in a lengthy novel, the history of a Midwestern community, tries to show "how good human material can be swept by the tide of tine into shallows and onto shoals...