Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivid genre painting of a Midwestern barber shop by Paul Sample...
...possible that Eastern publications are still wont to minimize the accomplishments of a Midwestern team even though it might be defending a matter so local and provincial as a national championship...
Wriston likes to point out by way of contrast that Lawrence has a larger investment in athletic equipment per student than any other Midwestern college...
Among U. S. expatriate writers a tall, midwestern girl named Kay Boyle has emerged as the most prolific of the lot. In the last three years she has published six volumes. Master of a spectacular if not always lucid prose, she has told the story of the death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works...
...well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons of the Italian sea, and the two Glockners rising from their glaciers, upright from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor, talks politics with him, tells the story of her life...