Word: midwesternisms
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...month in world history, and most of it disappeared from circulation in the darkened caves of U.S. movie theaters. Surveying the technological development that set the corn rolling, the Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make 7½ Cents, slight as it is, an oddly likable piece of Americana...
Pusey said he knew of no other midwestern college figures who have yet been contacted by the Corporation. However, it has recently been rumored that the Corporation, unable to find a suitable choice in this area, is searching the ranks of mid-Western colleges for presidents or deans who have graduated from the College...
...weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...Herb." After the nomination was won, Brownell helped lay out the general campaign plans, then packed his bags and headed for his Manhattan law office. He could have been campaign manager, but he knew that the big black "D" on his old sweaters would antagonize the Midwestern Taftites, even though he was no longer Dewey...