Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homespun exhorter, Preacher Anthony told his hearers at Old Salem to rear their children in ways of work ("If I had my way, I'd not raise a boy in Georgia who had not looked at the south end of a mule going north"), urged honesty as the best policy ("When you talk to God, tell Him the truth or keep your mouth shut"), livened his homilies with anecdote ("Up in Johnson County, they named a girl Blasphemy and called her 'Phemy' for short"). One of his prayers that sent "Amens" echoing round the tabernacle...
This setup will give modest, canny, homespun Ike Tigrett a chance to step up the $427,388 net profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other...
Cynicism was not smart last week in the U. S. Homespun old words like "democracy" and"liberty" had become respectable again -and the common property of plain citizens. Out of the mouths of non-political citizens the times ordained political truth...
...that the first task of the Administration was to restore private enterprise, that national defense depends mightily on a highly productive, Federally encouraged domestic economy. But Mr. Willkie still had more friends than delegates, and G. O. P. bosses were still leery of a Wall Streeter, no matter how homespun his appearance...
From the three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...