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Word: homespun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chinese Babbitt | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 Members of Faculty Bid Farewell To Their Posts This June and August | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

Freshest Face. At 67, bristle-haired, homespun Jim Duff had suddenly become a major power in the Republican Party and its freshest face in years. Some even talked of him as a presidential prospect; after all he was only one year older than Harry Truman himself.* The son of a Presbyterian minister, Jim Duff grew up among the rigs and hard-knuckled men of western Pennsylvania's oilfields. Trained as a lawyer, he made a fortune in wildcatting, lost it in the 1929 crash. A delegate to many a political convention but never a candidate until 1946, Duff campaigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Passing of High-Button Shoes | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Author Peter (The Path of Thunder) Abrahams, himself a South African Negro, makes this clear in his persuasive, homespun novel. As the Boers marched north, the beer-guzzling Matabele King Mzilikazi teetered in confusion between the war & peace factions of his court. Yet even his favorite pacifist counselor advised him to fight when the Boers invaded Matabele territory: "The land is ours. Let us call forth our soldiers and fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragic Trek | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Dizzy's salary back in 1933, when he won 20 games for the Cardinals, was $3,000. For his corn-pone idiom and homespun description of doings at the Yankee Stadium this summer he will get $30,000. "Which is more than I ever made pitchin' baseballs," he says thoughtfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing, Swanged, Swunged | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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