Word: homespun
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...years ago I was working in Madura urging some of my countrymen to clothe themselves in khadder [native homespun]. But these people, who were sympathetic, all replied: 'We are too poor to buy khadder; it is too dear.' Then for the first time I seemed to see the difference between them...
From within the aluminum ball two men peered through port windows at the endless blue vacancy about them. The taller of the two, gawky, long-haired, bespectacled, clad in rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were...
...American women must wear homespun garments and emancipate yourselves from slavery to styles as well as dependence upon factories, just as the women of India are doing...
...digging. Much more." A slow starter, he worked at his stories for 14 years before he sold one. Now he is rated as one of the half-dozen leading U. S. authors. His carefully ornamented, politely civilized style usually cloaks a plot that might seem melodramatic in a more homespun dress. He lives in West Chester, Pa., is married, and is a good hand at collecting antiques. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl, Linda Condon...
Lightnin' (Fox). The old play which the late Frank Bacon helped to write and which he played 1,291 times on Broadway is now a vehicle for some adroit homespun fooling by Will Rogers. It is not so good as a picture as it was on the stage because the camera too often follows wandering sequences of the plot, but it is handsomely arranged and fairly funny. Will Rogers seems to enjoy himself as the boozing but golden-hearted rustic whose only decisive action is a refusal to sign papers that would have permitted his wife to sell...