Word: midwesternisms
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...sometimes pays to be solemn. He is careful to treat old women with respect. He air-expresses an orchid to "the good neighbor of the day"-chosen from nominating letters sent in by listeners. Sometimes he presents an orchid to a member of the audience. Often she is a Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience if he is too intimate. They invariably scream...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...MANY BONES - Ruth Sawtell Wallis - Dodd, Mead ($2). How the disappearance of a domineering widow, who browbeat the staff of a Midwestern museum, led to grisly discoveries by a young anthropologist and his pretty assistant. A mixture of shivers and sprightly talk...
...Idea. A top-notch Minnesota banker, greying, heavy-set John Cameron Thomson, had the idea. "Tom" Thomson, 53, heads the Northwest Bancorporation (consolidated assets: $800 million), an 82-bank Midwestern outfit that ranks second to the Giannini Transamerica Corp. among U.S. bank holding companies. Thomson is also vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Economic Policy Committee, and one of their powwows last spring set him to thinking...
...beef will be more bony and gristly, because it is not finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...