Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...
...Rosemary Clooney, the duet with Dietrich was something of a dream come true: "Marlene is everything I'd like to be," she says. But she is a far cry from glamorous Grandma Dietrich. Instead of heavy-lidded Weltschmerz, Kentucky's bright-eyed Rosemary has been peddling homespun charm since she was three. She began with Home on the Range, worked up to a radio series while still in high school. A feature spot with Tony Pastor's band led to a contract with Columbia Records (where among her other chores she did children's songs). Last...
Well-Tailored Homespun...
...must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent-TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word...
...Convention, Adlai Stevenson stepped to the microphone to sing the praises of a bulky, apple-cheeked man who stood slightly to the rear, grinning happily though his eyes were red from lack of sleep and his curly, greying hair was rumpled. Stevenson had scarcely gotten under way when careful, homespun John Jackson Sparkman, who had just been nominated for Vice President of the United States, stopped grinning, fished a cough drop out of his mouth and slipped it through a crack in the platform floor...