Word: folke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart folk motoring down to Biarritz, at the close of Deauville's "fortnight," had two droll little incidents to tell about...
...Sell the tickets among eager, gullible working-folk...
...Sensible folk everywhere will not be influenced by this mean attack upon a great community...
...beginning to appear in quantities, notably from the presses of a new firm: International Publishers, Manhattan. Ready this week is International's 855-page Guide-Book to the Soviet Union ($5), the first such book to appear in English since Baedeker's Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation...
Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...