Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barkley was a mite stiff in the joints, but his eagerness to kiss a pretty girl was as well known as his homespun quip. President Harry Truman, signing a bill authorizing a special Barkley medal for his long and distinguished record in Congress, jokingly displayed a LIFE spread of Barkley cavorting with a Washington hostess, as evidence of his "service." Mr. Truman might have added that since Barkley took office in January, he has made more speeches (62 in 21 states), crowned more queens, and bussed more babies than any Vice President of record...
...Greatness of Simplicity. Homely, homespun 56-year-old General Omar Bradley was the obvious choice for the job, and a happy one. Omar Bradley had taken the U.S. some time to know. At West Point, where he was a '15 classmate of Eisenhower's, he is remembered as the crack centerfielder who made the longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under...
Short had nothing on another Missourian in the field of the corn-fed anecdote. Homespun Democrat George Christopher wanted the House to know that he had been farming since he was old enough and he was for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Said Christopher proudly, turning Short's mule around: "I invite you all to look at another Missourian who has looked for long hours at the north end of that southbound mule...
...leader of the rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...Paris, the gloom surrounding the council's final sessions at the Palais de Chaillot inspired yet another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in which the musicians leave the orchestra pit one by one until only two violins and the conductor are left). "The speeches started in crescendo. Then people began slipping away one by one. At the end there was no one left and nothing...