Word: homey
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...says Muriel Agnelli, a matronly, grey-haired lady in her late 40s, "is lots of common sense, a little less cynicism and a little more faith. Where children are concerned, we need a little more discipline and a little less indulgence." Mrs. Agnelli had better be right. On that homey recipe she has become a No. 1 newspaper counselor, and mother confessor to millions of U.S. newspaper readers. Last week Bell Syndicate let out a well-kept secret: Mrs. Agnelli is the new "Dorothy Dix." She is also the wife of the syndicate's general manager, Joseph Agnelli...
Bert Wheeler, remembered by another generation as a vaudeville wheelhorse, lends a bit of life to the general proceedings as Jamie's leprechaunish friend. His quiet, reserved delivery of homey humor seems ideally suited to the book...
...deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins...
...written in a homey manner, a "Life With Father" style which is clever yet completely devoid of sophistication. Growing old is the theme, but there is no plot as such. Throughout the six scenes there is a string of incidents such as the first late date of a son, a mother's reaction to her daughter's marriage, a husband's fears before his wife gives birth...
...attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers a homey picture of royal family life with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who is one year old this week, in the crawling stage and the proud possessor of six teeth...