Word: folke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folksy Mr. Ford? Fortunately Cinemasophisticate Menjou has such wholesome tastes as a penchant for garlic. Therefore, when Henry and Mrs. Ford led off in a lancers, Mr. Menjou followed, with his fiancée, Cinemactress Kathryn Carver, whom he will shortly espouse in Europe. Naturally the smart folk of the Majestic followed gaily the lead of Motor Man Ford when he proceeded to waltz, polka, mazurka and Virginia reel. Tales of these dancings and prancings flashed ahead of the Majestic and spiced English comment and curiosity about Celebrity Ford, until his arrival became London's most toasting-hot teatime...
...ROYAL FAMILY-Stage folk keep the home fires burning brightly (TIME...
...Tipperary Tim was being led to the paddock, English folk crowded to pat him. They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them...
...special Harvard night of "Porgy", the negro folk play which the Theatre Guild has been running in New York, has been arranged by the Liberal Club for the night of Tuesday, April...
...League of Youth (1869), one of Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...