Word: midwesternisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Smith College in Northampton, Mass., official training center for officers, will receive about 900 WAVES during the first week in October. A Midwestern school for enlisted personnel will open in November...
Ambersons is an exhausting picture. It is almost humorless, almost without physical action. George's megalomania, detestable but never dull, becomes wearing from repetition. Old Major Amberson is not sufficiently explained. Neither is the spread of U.S. industrialism which changes and befouls the Midwestern city...
...example, there was a Midwestern newspaperman, now an Under Secretary of Agriculture, who went to the Institute to speak with obvious admiration of what he had seen in England; earnestly to recommend Britain's "great determination to maintain after the war the kind of equity in distribution which the war has forced." There was an Assistant Secretary of State who pointed out how the principle of Lend-Lease could serve a world commonwealth as it is now serving the United Nations...
...reasons for this course. Peace-loving U.S. Quakers have been split for more than a century by bitter religious differences; only since World War I have Friends managed to bring about something like Quaker unity. They are very reluctant to let any new issue disturb that unity-especially since Midwestern Evangelical Quakers (who are strong on doctrine) still look askance at East Coast Quakers, many of whom are Hicksites who put the authority of the Inner Light before the authority of the Bible...
...Author Wylie's story, a Midwestern ex-Rhodes Scholar comes home, after a year in blitzed London, to manufacture an incendiary bomb that will instantly burn up anything it hits. At home he finds a group of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...