Word: midwesternisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...
...team which will appear in the debate has not yet been chosen, but those who debate against Marquette will be included in a group of eight Council members who will debate 26 midwestern colleges and universities during spring recess, April 4 to April...
...midwestern parts of the country are almost entirely frozen. Below zero temperatures were reported yesterday from Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and North Dakota. Frost was reported in most of the southern states, and temperatures dipped to 35 on the southern tip of Florida...