Word: minnesotan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Lloyd Wright has suggested the handle of "Usonian." I think that's a decided improvement if a new adjective is to be sought, as I believe it should be. "Misonian" is likely to be confused with "Minnesotan" or "Smithsonian." ... I advance "Usamian" from United States of America, pronounced with a short...
...lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make his third Supreme Court appointment count politically by giving it to the West (now represented only by Minnesotan Pierce Butler) and possibly to a Catholic. The President paid his respects to Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska's George W. Norris who should get the Supreme Court vacancy. Senator Norris said Frankfurter...
READING THE SPIRIT-Richard Eberhart-Oxford University Press ($2.50). Wet-behind-the-ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...
...your speech. But you can't do it with that gun in your hand. Come on, drop it down to me." The youth stared down dully. "Throw me your gun, that's a good fellow," coaxed Representative Maas. The revolver, loaded and cocked, plunked down into the Minnesotan's open hand. Simultaneously New York's stocky little La Guardia, also a wartime aviator, who had dashed directly to the gallery, helped capture the young man from behind. Representatives sneaked sheepishly back to the floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made...