Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eager to reward genial, homespun President Steadman Vincent Sanford for 35 years of service as head of the University of Georgia, the Georgia board of regents last month made him Chancellor of the State university system with orders to keep an eye on the University proper and some 20 allied institutions. Dr. Sanford's promotion left open the presidency of the oldest (chartered 1785) State university in the U. S. Last week the regents filled that post with a scholarly Atlantan who will be the youngest president of any State university...
...language of Broadcaster Taylor's little homilies often becomes elaborately homespun, to suit the simple tastes of his following. Calling his public's attention to his new portrait last week, he declared...
President No such discouraged figure did newsmen see when they filed into President Roosevelt's office next morning. Dressed for his birthday in a new grey homespun suit, a white rose and his best smile, the President was ready for them...
...conjecture. It was difficult to think of it last week without an all-Russian cast in which every member has a real feeling for an earthy Russian village. But what Shostakovich has accomplished with his orchestra will long be remembered by all who listened to it seriously. His vulgar homespun libretto prepared people for something madly modern. Such a heroine as Katerina seemed ludicrously impossible. Yet when the curtain went up there were no fierce shriekings. Katerina was quietly, miserably restless as strings droned and woodwinds sighed. The audience instantly caught her mood and hated the old father...
...Madison, Bachelor Anderson lives with three sisters in a house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...