Word: homey
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...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...
...private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...
...Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled England by becoming the first member of the royal family publicly to approve birth control.) London papers, which would never dare fake such a story, have asserted several times that Edward VIII when Prince of Wales proposed marriage to Athlone's homey daughter Lady May Cambridge, great favorite of Queen Mary, but she preferred to marry Captain Henry Abel Smith of the Royal Horse Guards...
...Siberia in 1918 wiry little Paul Reynaud was a tough French liaison officer with the White Russian Army of Kolchak, got to know Bolsheviks first hand. His dynamism kindled Mme Reynaud, homey daughter of a president of the Paris Bar Association, to step out and become an aviatrix. As for his own exercise, the new Premier is the kind of man who makes everything strenuous, even bicycling-his favorite sport. He once participated in a long-distance road race...
Entente Cordiale (Max Glass) was probably intended as French propaganda for home consumption on the present Anglo-French alliance. In it royally whiskered King Edward VII (Victor Francen) faces a crisis in affairs with France, a leisurely episode which leaves the general impression that European crises were comparatively homey affairs 30 years...