Word: midwesternisms
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...Sebring dictum must be strictly observed: "Oil is for machinery and moving parts; unless you have a screw loose, it has no place on the head." Cigars, Facials. Chicago, for all its Midwestern spittoons-on-the-floor masculinity, has at least two beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees...
Most notable case in point was Dr.Ralph Elliott, a professor at the Midwestern Baptist Seminary in Kansas City...
...your article on Poland [Feb. 23] you stated that that country's corn yield reached 449 bu. per acre in 1961. Such an astronomical figure must surely have made many a Midwestern farmer wince in utter astonishment...
After a tough weekend in Minnesota, the Crimson travels to Colorado Springs to meet Colorado College, another Midwestern school that has adopted what Eastern colleges consider to be the right approach to hockey. The teams will clash in the famous Broadmoor Rink, at the foot of Pikes Peak...
Other teams in the field are from Washington University (the host), Valparaiso, DePaw, Wheaton, and Williams Jewell, all Midwestern schools. On its return trip to Cambridge, the quintet will meet Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Wednesday...