Word: homeyness
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...peacetime Russia. Peter and Elena Ignatov led a quiet, homey life. But the war altered all that. Killing has become their trade; they pursue it with the matter-of-factness with which Peter once tinkered with engines and Elena mended her sons' torn garments. Today, Peter's is one of Russia's busiest guerrilla "armies"; Elena is one of his killers...
...Yonkers for the big race went a surprising number of horsemen, breeders, farmers, from all over the nation. They took a homey atmosphere to slick Empire...
Because the stories are true and because there has been no effort to milk them of their last drop of drama, Listen has been homey without being folksy, earthy with few traces of corn...
...Courtship of Andy Hardy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the twelfth-but not the last-of the Hardy pictures. Like an oldtime serial, the series, which has become M.G.M.'s biggest moneymaker, threatens to go on" forever. As a chronicle of the homey, down-to-middling-good-earth doings of a triumphantly ordinary family in a triumphantly ordinary U.S. town, it is a natural for U.S. moviegoers...
...Roosevelt town houses on East 65th Street are for sale, and Franklin Roosevelt is no lover of hotels. Homey, elbow-roomy Hyde Park remains his legal residence. Mrs. Roosevelt rented the Washington Square apartment for "a term of years." In My Day, she philosophized: "I feel I have now reached an age where I can reasonably expect to stay wherever I go for the rest of my life...