Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreigner," Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost it moving from Washington to Topeka after...
...trouble is that in its Tarkington-esque aspects, the show is completely lacking in genuine remembrance, ease and spontaneity. The cyclists are pretty to look at, but as artificially gay in spirit as so many madrigal singers. As a Midwestern servant of the early 1900s, Pearl Bailey is about as believable as Salvador Dali's autobiography, but she does whatever she does with such queenly conviction and emphasis that she is by all odds the best thing in the show...
Besides these factors today is Homecoming Day in Ithaca. To understand what homecoming can mean, one must only realize that Cornell has long been considered "the biggest Midwestern school in the East." And today is also' the 80th anniversary of the opening of classes at Cornell...
...Beef and pork prices in the Chicago and Minneapolis markets reached new highs this week as midwestern live-stock rates showed no signs of a cut-back...
...Beef and pork prices in the Chicago and Minneapolis markets reached new highs this week as midwestern live stock rates showed no signs of a cutback...