Word: midwesternisms
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...watching the developments around Schlitz was Peter W. Stroh, 54, president of the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit, founded by his great-grandfather, a German immigrant, in 1850. Stroh's is the largest family-owned brewery in America and the seventh biggest in the industry. Michigan and other Midwestern college students had chugged Stroh's for generations; Detroit Tiger baseball fans lazed to commercials for Stroh's on hot summer afternoons. In the 1970s Easterners began smuggling Stroh's out of its Midwestern market, turning it into somewhat of a cult beverage. Stroh's claimed...
Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir is at once a glorious success story and a seeming fairy tale From a humble Midwestern south in Sioux Falls, N.D., Fairbank soared through stints at Exeter. Wisconsin Harvard and Oxford, breezing academics and keeping a quirky sort of perspective on his meteoric intellectual development. I broke the cadence and entered Wisconsin instead of Harvard. This was partly because coeducation appealed to me. I knew how to study. What else was there...
...bizarre ending for this eldest son of an Albanian immigrant who had become a Chicago restaurateur. (Another son, Jim, followed his brother into revue and TV comedy.) Always restless and volatile, John sped through a typical Midwestern youth: football, rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
DIED. Oscar Stauffer, 95, onetime head of a Midwestern communications empire, whose considerable political clout helped engineer the G.O.P. presidential nomination of Alf M. Landon in 1936; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stauffer Communications, now made up of 31 newspaper and broadcasting properties in eleven states, was launched in 1915, when Stauffer purchased a Kansas weekly paper with money he had earned as a reporter...
Assistant coach Frank Haggerty describes Murrer's attitude as "that great Midwestern mentality." He comes down, does his warm-up and finds, out what his workout is and does it. He never questions it or tries to negotiate to make it easier, and I've given him some phenomenal workouts...