Word: homey
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...little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York, its "Letters From the Mailbag" (occasionally staff-written), its classified ads for apartments and friendships, its homey items from Sioux City and Dallas...
...even English 35, he would throw his C minus brain at her feet. But she was pondering on Willa Cather. Vag was crushed completely, and he knew it. He peered over his shoulder, trying to learn the title. Perhaps, he had read it, and they could have a homey chat on its place in literature. But he could think of nothing to say, nothing, that is, that would not sound as ridiculous as "have you the time?" And while stations and towns rolled by, Vag brooded, and the pretty girl turned her pages. But the demon in Vag would stay...
...queerest choices Franklin Roosevelt ever made was to pick William Edward Dodd, a history professor brimming with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening...
journalism are the Sauk Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes, and Oologah Oozings that deliver homey news to 17,000,000 small-town and rural Americans. In the U. S. newspaper business, country weeklies of their kind are a big bright spot. While the urban dailies wane, the rural weeklies wax. Since 1929 they have gained in numbers,* circulation and advertising lineage, while the daily group has fallen...
Safely aground, Yankee Celler added a homey touch. "All the time we were up there I was thinking, 'This will be a first-page story in New Haven if we smash.' What a vacation for me! Only a week ago I was in one of Hitler's prisons for taking pictures without permission." Said brunette Miss Maddux: "It was fun. I think I made some good friends during that half hour." Then the toasters set off for a party at a London hotel, equerry...