Word: home-grown
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...President's wife the Homesteaders gave a basket of home-grown radishes and onions. Said she: "I'll take them home. My husband adores onions...
...literary position is not in stormy latitudes but among calm inland waters. Wiser than her generation, she has taken not the whole U. S. to be her province but only her own small town of Portage, Wis. There, like Candide, she cultivates her literary garden, is content with small, home-grown blooms. Older and gentler than when she wrote Miss Lulu Bett, she still likes to tell a long story briefly, intensively, in quiet words...
...several years. Manufacturers of harness reported mounting sales. Purebred Percherons were bringing from $300 for mares to $1,000 for stallions. Medium weight animals (1,400 to 1,500 lb.) were most in demand. Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again. Low crop prices have made home-grown feeds for horses more economical than fuel for motors...
...lead while the orchestra shimmered all around it, a slow movement lengthily developed and embroidered, a quick finale discreetly syncopated. All of it was the glittering, impersonal kind of music that people have come to associate with the Ravel so notedly fastidious about his neckties, his pastries, his home-grown hot-house flowers. Bostonians liked the soloing of Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma. Philadelphians were just as pleased with Pianist Sylvan Levin. In both cities the urbane Ravel has become so popular that his Concerto was accepted unquestioningly as a big event of the season...
...combined with his lack of facility in expressing what he has to say, makes him at times almost incoherent, at times downright silly. But he is respected if not read by the U. S. at large, which has been taught to regard him as one of its few genuine home-grown authors. Three years ago Anderson settled -in Marion, Va., bought two country papers, one Democratic, one Republican, edits them impartially, contentedly. Thrice married, he has three children. Other books: Windy McPherson's Son, Winesburg, Ohio, Poor White, Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, A Story Teller...