Word: homeyness
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...producers decided to try religion when they got hold of a four-hour Cinecolor film of the annual Easter sunrise passion play put on as an Oklahoma hillside Oberammergau by citizens of Lawton, Okla. Babb & Jossey trimmed the film and added some homey fictional sequences fore & aft, starring a six-year-old "find" from Atlanta, named Ginger Prince ("42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern charm...
...Life of Riley (Universal-International) may be an ominous preview of the day when more & more radio soap operas will be seen on television. For four years, a sharp-eyed young man named Irving Brecher has produced Riley, a radio show about one of those homey American families that persist in radio scripters' minds. Now he has put the program's star (William Bendix) and a cast of actors into an untidy little movie made up of short episodes and an endless crescendo of gags...
...likes best. In the comfortable, 17-room yellow brick house he built on aristocratic Grande Aliée in 1912, he seemed like any other head of a family. His two sons, three daughters and 13 grandchildren were around him. There were large family dinners in the big, homey dining room; Madame St. Laurent took over in the kitchen, got to work with her favorite French Canadian recipes...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...
Everyone is welcome at the Sills house and Casey remembers everyone's name. Popular Mrs. Sills chatters over her teacups, gives students a homey feeling (to a distinguished visitor who had called himself an s.o.b., she exclaimed: "Oh, you have an S.O.B.?" as if it were an honorary degree). The Sills have never grown used to visiting celebrities. Once Lord Dunsany left his shoes outside his door for a servant to shine. In the morning they had been shined-by Casey himself...