Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most marchers frankly admitted that on their way to London, local charity folk gave them more to eat than they have had in many months at home. Among the suburbs of the capital, schoolhouses, suburban railway stations and district lodging houses offered shelter for the night, but London itself was different. In London the hunger horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right...
...dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...
...have read with interest your magazine since becoming a subscriber, a splendid periodical for busy folk. But I take serious exception to the article on Kingfish Long. Give us the truth about politics but please don't quote the politician when he becomes sacrilegious...
...Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build up the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show...
...Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first wife, Marie Norton, whose No. 2 husband is Poloist William Averell Harriman. His present wife, the former Gwladys Hopkins of Philadelphia, is niece of the Marquise de Polignac, races hunters, has been presented at Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation...