Word: homespuns
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...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...
...Valley Forge, asserting that, right or wrong, the government a people gets is the one it wants and should have. Neither his Washington nor his Continentals have many illusions about the republic they are about to set up, but Mr. Anderson does his best to dignify the perverse, wilful, homespun idealism which makes them fight for that republic. At a time when many people are scratching their heads over the anatomy and organism of government, Valley Forge is apt and to the point. Such is Mr. Anderson's intention, for his forte is timeliness...