Word: homespuns
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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...
Harry Truman had been acting just as benevolent, kind, homespun, cheerful, charming and chipper as could be. But he had been deluged all week by a rain of dead cats as big as tigers. As he strode into his press conference, he was fairly busting to tell the world that his heart was pure and that he was true to the red, white & blue. There had, he said right off, been a lot of hooey about seizure of the press & radio. The thought of seizing them had never occurred to him, and he couldn't imagine it happening. Then...
...family photos, some news films of Frank Costello on the witness stand, and a folksy informality of manner that gave the show more the air of a social visit than an appeal from a political platform. None of Kefauver's rivals is likely to top him in homespun amiability. What he lacks in TV forcefulness is compensated for by a persuasive, if plodding, earnestness...