Word: nebraskan
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...been at work on this absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third-rate novelists look like...
...aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...
Toward Washington tramped Coxey's Army dreaming of $500,000,000 in new greenbacks; a big-jawed young Nebraskan, William Jennings Bryan, became a Presidential nominee with one speech; Eugene Debs's strikers lit the Chicago night-sky with burning Pullman cars...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
Between 1932 and 1935 the new capital market dried up as thoroughly as a Nebraskan wheat field during a drought- despite the steady drop in money rates. In 1935 U. S. business resumed borrowing, but refunding, not new capital, got most of the play. The year's total was $2,267,000,000. The market's biggest year since 1930 was 1936; but again most of the new money was for refunding...