Word: folke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening is so sacred as the opening night of a potent picture. In soft purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink...
...Three Italian Folk Songs...
...those interested in a kind of music that is more than any other of essentially popular origin, the selection of typical folk songs of all nations that will be sung by Miss de Almeida in the Music Building at 10 o'clock this morning should prove a strong attraction. Lectures of interest for today...
...undigested "national minorities" which Rumania greedily gulped at the close of the War. Two years ago Dr. Maniu merged his Peasant Party with other factions to form the National Peasant Party. Last spring he staged a gigantic Peasant Congress at Alba Julia, from which hundreds and thousands of ragged folk marched upon Bucharest (TIME, March...
American Negro Folk-Songs...