Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This lack of action is due to hero-sheriff Tom Banning (Joel McCrea), who likes to talk first and shoot afterwards. Sheriff Tom is a pretty cagey fellow and things rarely get to the shooting stage. Banning further slows the story by explaining every important decision with a homey parable...
...results were as homey and informal as any politician could hope for. A shirt manufacturer named Harvey Rothenberg asked: "From a social and an etiquette point of view, do you think you were correct in criticizing the Russians . . . at your recent talk at the Waldorf?" Said Dewey, "It wasn't etiquette, but it was awfully good for the Russians." What did he think of the Dodgers' chances in the National League Pennant race? "They look wonderful...
...flat, homey, Western Missouri twang, Harry Truman made it all sound as easy as gathering eggs, and about as familiar. Those who raised objections were just old fogies...
...first man to declare himself last week for the Republican nomination for governor in the 1950 Massachusetts election was a homey, cob-nosed Yankee with a down-East twang. He had been ten years a state legislator and two years lieutenant governor. But more than his face and a good record gave him a good chance of getting the nomination. There was his name: Coolidge, Arthur W. Candidate Coolidge, white-haired and 68, is a fourth cousin of Calvin, but he is not quite so silent, and his collars are not quite so stiffly starched. Cousin Arthur promised to give...
...outstanding personality on the air. From radio and TV, records, business investments, stocks & bonds, and other odds & ends, he gets close to $1,000,000 a year. He earns $1,500 for every minute he broadcasts. He is seen & heard-and apparently loved-by 40 million people. His homey, cracker-barrel commercials for tea, cigarettes, furniture polish, floor wax, window cleanser, crackers, shampoos, soup, home permanents, hand lotion and hair tonic set cash registers jingling profitably across the nation. He is the greatest salesman who ever stood before a microphone...