Word: midwesternisms
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...general rah-rah of autumn, digging the meaning elbow of their buffoonery into the ribs of the football fans. Self-styled apotheoses of the wacky, the Brothers pull on helmets and shoulder pads, copy the old one-minute-to-go formula in triplicate, climax the film by beating rival Midwestern for dear old Lombard when Harry Ritz throws a high pass, catches it himself, and runs for the winning touchdown...
...TIDE OF TIME-Edgar Lee Masters-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Author of Spoon River Anthology tells again, this time in a lengthy novel, the history of a Midwestern community, tries to show "how good human material can be swept by the tide of tine into shallows and onto shoals...
...Bureau of Public Roads announced researches, made in Connecticut, which showed that Connecticut drivers averaged 38.2 m.p.h., New York State drivers averaged 40.3 m.p.h., motorists from four Midwestern States 44.9 m.p.h. The Bureau's investigators, who parked inconspicuously while clocking the cars over measured distances and noting their license plates, offered several explanations for these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers...
...died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire, Irene Castle McLaughlin, the daughters of Walter P. Chrysler and Milton Snavely Hershey. Last fortnight his widow, Mrs. Teresa Catherine Ament, put National Park into the hands of an equally remarkable midwestern educator, Dr. Roy Tasco Davis, who simultaneously resigned as public relations director of Missouri's Stephens College...
...offside in each other's home territory. Federal Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis decided that the name "Esso" used by S.O.N.J.'s subsidiary had infringed on Standard of Indiana's trademark, "S.O.," granted an injunction prohibiting the New Jersey company from using in 14 Midwestern States any trademark derived from the words "Standard Oil." C. WThile automobile men talked of impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company...