Word: folke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writer Stein is a doughty Pennsylvanian of 55 who has lived in Paris for 20 years, writing, experimenting, playing hostess to scores of queer artistic folk who, with herself, have made her salon famed. Among her books are Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, A Birthday Book, As a Wife Has a Cow, Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein...
Incredulous folk found more interesting than these holy doings the hard fact that in New Delhi, India, last week, the Indian Legislative Assembly rejected (53 to 24) a bill which would have made illegal the notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
...House Doorn. As the morning advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...
...first lecture, "Karolingische and ottinische Renaissance," will deal with Medieval Latin and German literature, a field in which Professor Naumann first experimented. The second, "Geschichte des Puppenspiels in Deutschland," will discuss folk literature. In the third lecture Professor Naumann will discuss, "Rainer Maria Rilke and der Ubergang vom Impressionismus zum Expressionismus," which will treat contemporary German literature...
...author shows how far he has strayed from his best field by the story-telling power he displays. His rendering of the folk tales and other stories told by him makes, them the high-lights of the book. Therein lies the chief hope for readers of this book that his next one will be along lines better suited to his talents...