Word: midwesternisms
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...Pontoon contained the reprint cartoons, as reprint column of "two-line gags," and a series of original articles describing life in Cambridge as if Harvard men behaved the way the Lampoon thinks Midwestern collegians...
Complaint centered on the obscenity of a two-page spread of cartoons reprinted from midwestern college humor magazines. The editors of the Bow Street publication deliberately printed these cartoons because they thought them representative of the had taste the Pontoon was designed to parody, they said...
...issue was produced as if the editors of the Ponca City (Iowa) U. Pontoon had taken over the Lampoon as the College's purveyor of local humor. The issue was planned and written as a satire on the ways, habits, and sense of humor of Midwestern college students and their funny magazines...
...article was written because a young parent who uses the pseudonym John William Sperry† happened to get into casual conversation with an English teacher in a Midwestern town...
...prodigious researcher, Lea had dipped into Mexico to learn about the Spanish origins of U.S. cattle. He came back with some dramatic bullfight sketches and material for a fine first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...