Word: midwesternisms
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...into his. 'Jay, I'm glad it's you instead of the iceman or something.' " But he never comes to know his true self or his native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen sun over the ocean shone in their faces." Novelist Dos Passos was better when he was angry...
...remaking the Times-Herald in the image of his Chicago Tribune. Already, the T-H was using Trib-style type and makeup, parroting its editorials and columnists, using the Trib's truncated spellings (sherif, frate), even leading off the weekly football predictions (piped in from Chicago) with Midwestern games. Cracked one Washington newshand: "All he needs to do is call it the Washington Tribune...
...fiercer aspects, Joe Jones* was one, of the angriest proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...
...painting in the gusty mood of Thomas Benton's rising Midwestern school. But the strained, angry faces he gave his farmer subjects betrayed the influence of Marxart. Swayed by left-wing friends and the memories of a rough childhood, the ex-house painter went socially conscious with a vengeance. In 1934, after an uproar over his teaching of mixed white and Negro art classes in St. Louis' Old Courthouse (where slaves had once been auctioned), Jones joined the Communist Party...
McCarthy the Orator. Too pressed for time to finish his testimony, McCarthy hopped into a plane and headed for Santa Fe to address a gathering of 17 Republican state chairmen from the Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. This also got him out of town as a Rules subcommittee opened hearings on the resolution of Connecticut's Senator William Benton demanding his expulsion from the Senate...