Word: homeyness
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...Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security. In the end, wistfully switching her skirt over a fetching figure, she chooses Niven, who turns out to be the homey type after all. The other lover fades away, leaving his air of boredom with the audience. Outside the triangle, some consolation may be found with the nincompoop butler, Hugh Herbert, w ho bungles the works as usual. Billic Burke and C. Anbrey Smith are also in the show. Except...
...that went to sea" out of "the bare bones of fine and brave and godly living." The bones: logs of the voyages of Maine Sea Captain John Pennell; three diaries minutely inscribed by his wife Abby; her letters to her mother. Compiler Coffin appropriately fleshes these bones in hearty, homey, dash-a-tear language...
...morning of July 15 was a scorcher in Tokyo. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's homey wife rose early to prepare her husband a jug of iced barley-tea. American-born Lady Craigie, wife of the British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than...
...Belair Stud, Breeder Woodward also raises Clydesdale draft horses. Once a year he sends the stallions around the countryside to improve the stock of the Maryland farmer. Next to horses, the Master of Belair loves trees?not fancy trees, but big homey maples, oaks, beeches. He is always adding trees to his farm, often personally directs their planting and pruning...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) continues the adventures of the Hardys of Carvel, the old judge (Lewis Stone), his long-suffering wife (Fay Holden), moony Marian (Cecilia Parker) and bratty Andy (Mickey Rooney). The Hardys' wholesome, homey doings are designed to arouse in their millions of fans no emotion stronger than delighted recognition. Andy, more than ever the tail that wags the Hardy dog, reacts to spring by falling in love with his pretty new dramatics teacher (Helen Gilbert...