Word: homeyness
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Visitors to Wellmet find a homey place strewn with ashtrays, records, clothing, and people. Despite the diversity of accents and ages, the occupants seem to have the chaotic cohesiveness of a family. Numbers fluctuate, as does everything at Wellmet, but usually there are six students and eight residents. The house parents, an ex-minister who teaches at Newton High School and his wife, live with their two children in the two first-floor bedrooms. The residents have the second floor and the third is reserved for the students...
...father, reacted like a real trouper; when the makeup man had difficulty applying the pasties, she said: "Hurry up, will you? I'm late for a cocktail party." In another instance, Linda rejected all the picture poses proposed by the German magazine Der Stern, finally hit on the homey scene of mother and daughter sitting nude in a bathtub...
...alas. In the early '20s, when he first came to public attention in the novels of Sapper (H. C. McNeile), he was an overblown Blimp who hated "Bolshies" and took peculiar pleasure in flogging "Hebrews." In 1929, the cur was portrayed by Ronald Colman as a sort of homey Holmes - a friendly legal beagle who spent more time rolling his big sad eyes at the lady customers than he did hounding down the villain. In Deadlier than the Male, the adaptable Drummond shows up as the type of sleuth who happens to be in style: the beagle is redecorated...
...music, the Beers Family is like not with it. They sing, of all things, for the sheer enjoyment of it. They are folk, not folkniks; they offer no burning messages, no protests, no shaggy manes, no bizarre costumes-just good old-fashioned harmonizing. Their concerts are as homey and relaxed as a Saturday-night song-swapping session in some backwoods farmhouse. That, in fact, is the source of their repertory-a rich and rewarding evocation of the musical life that made the hearthside a little gayer in the long decades before the dawn...
...heroine (Beryl Reid) has for years played the part of a kindly rural nurse. Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...