Word: home-grown
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...Secret Life of Walter Mltty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye, some home-grown harridans, some international jewel thieves, and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME...
Communist Interior Minister Teohari Georgescu's home-grown version of the Soviet MVD snatched some 5,000 persons from offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...
Billy McKell would not be the first home-grown Governor General; a distinguished lawyer. Sir Isaac Isaacs, had been that. But Billy would be the first who was an ex-boxer, ex-boilermaker, butcher...
...Home-Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
...Argentine polo pony trader arrived in the U.S. with a string of 24 mounts. He expected them to go like hotcakes, at $3,000 to $5,000 apiece, as they did before the war. By last week, he had not sold one. U.S. poloists had learned to appreciate the home-grown Texas cow-pony, which can run like the wind for 100 yards, stop on a dime and take a lot of punishment...