Word: midwesternisms
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...Herrenvolk of the Midwestern and Northeastern States will constitute the German-Magyar American Bund, which will have a common frontier with the enlarged Mexican Federation of Latin States...
...nine years Vermonters have worried along with white-topped, square-jawed Congressman Charles Plumley. Farmers disliked him because he lined up with the Midwestern farm bloc to keep up the price of grain, needed for Vermont dairy farms. Workers mumbled at his Red-baiting, labor-hating speeches. Still others decried his lack of taste: he once remarked it was good the Dionne quintuplets did not live in the U.S., for the AAA would rule that two should be plowed under. But hardly anyone ever challenged Charles Plumley at the polls; and Vermont always re-elected...
...doubt in Midwestern minds all along has been the problem of transportation to the oil-short East. But additional transportation between Midwest and the seaboard is available if the oil can be had at Midwest terminals. Some examples...
Harvard Hall and Boylston steps took on the appearance of a midwestern university, and coke dates, typical mark of the co-ed college, helped to sustain the feminine newcomers between classes...
Into the austere, windy surf scene on the opposite page, into the realistic but unreal city below it, Raymond Breinin (rhymes with winin' & dinin') has put the quality that sets him apart from most of his Midwestern contemporaries: his mystical imagination...