Word: midwesternisms
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...Hail Mammon, full of cash." Not at all. Father Urban knows and loves his duty, which is to God. But he knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only capable man, in the Clementines, a small and not very notable Midwestern order. The tall, urbane priest is a city man whose name fits him nicely, and when he consumes champagne and shish kebab with a millionaire amid the turbaned blackamoors of Chicago's Pump Room, he is doing what all the other city men dining there are doing. He is working...
...Gilfedder proceeds unswervingly down the Marxist SLP path, his prohibitionist opponent is a liberal who just cannot walk the straight conservative line of his party. The Prohibition Party platform is rather a parody of classic midwestern conservatism. The platform advocates a free market farm economy, states rights and racial equality, anti-trust laws covering labor and complete laissez-faire. It opposes, among other things, the legalized trade in alcoholic beverages. Shaw is anxious for a second prohibition but feels that "law is only ten per cent of the answer...
...good part of Miss Carson's book tells about the deadly effect of wholesale spraying on these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...
...World (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about four boys who live on a houseboat moored at a river dock in a Midwestern college town...
...statehouses, the Midwestern Democrats can see nothing but trouble. They are not certain that they can take a single Governor's chair away from a Republican. They all but concede that the G.O.P.'s Fred Seaton will beat Incumbent Democrat Frank Morrison in Nebraska. They admit that Ohio Democrat Mike Di Salle is an underdog against Republican State Auditor James Rhodes. In Wisconsin they have little hope that Democratic Attorney General John Reynolds will defeat any of three Republicans fighting to succeed Nelson. And they view Michigan's Democratic Governor John Swainson as no better than even...