Middle Western
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2018
How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014
Back in their Middle Western days, both men did radio broadcasts of away-from-home baseball games, when a minimal telegraphed strike-or-ball message had to be fleshed out into an imaginative description of a game unseen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reiteration of once successful jokes and pleasantries is peculiarly Middle Western.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were in the Ned Wayburn "Symphonic Jazz Revue," which was arranged by my producing department for the Middle Western Moving Picture Theatres.
From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Wayburn, Ned
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