Word: homespun
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...real tussle will be between homespun Senator Johnson, who survived an attempt by Colorado New Dealers to oust him in last week's primary, and Governor Carr, who won the Republican nomination without opposition. Self-educated Ed Johnson, 58, who would have none of the Administration before Pearl Harbor, is dear to the hearts of Colorado's conservative Democrats and has a simple, plain-spoken genius for winning elections...
...Lebanese nearly wiped out the 2,500 Confederates first. Readers North and South may be startled by Author Street's account of the sordidness, trickery, confusion and coldheartedness with which the most romanced-about of wars began, and by the role which he assigns to that "Machiavelli in homespun," Abraham Lincoln, in touching...
...good-looking All Americans, the picture ranges from the last minute football thrills of a Frank Merriwell to the questionable propriety of Hot Garters, the other woman. Henry Fonda, the midwestern professor with a home life, ranks as a growing threat to Jimmy Stewart's laurels as the homespun American who rings true in the pinches...
...took seven writers to produce Fleet's story-a prodigal waste of talent. A nice, homespun sailor (William Holden) inadvertently kisses a movie star, whereupon his battleship becomes the glamor ship of the U.S. fleet. To keep the flag flying, Sailor Holden is coerced into trying to kiss unbussable Dorothy Lamour, a dime-a-dancehall dame who loathes sailors. The Navy makes book on him. He kisses her all right, but it takes the whole picture...
...Homespun, placid Joe Martin got mad. He took Ed Flynn's remarks as an invitation to battle. Republican Leader Wendell Willkie took them as a tragedy. In a Syracuse, N.Y. speech Republican Willkie said that the "greatest disaster" that could befall America now would be for her to be conducted down "the route of pure partisanship...