Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averse is Sir John to publicity for himself or other B. B. C. folk that he vetoed a public opening of any sort, unbent on May 3 only to the extent of personally hoisting the B. B. C. flag: "A terrestrial globe on an azure field, representing the ether, with the seven remaining planets in the sky around it. Around the globe is a, golden ring representing broadcast transmissions through the ether encircling the earth...
...evening last week a party of Navy folk gathered at an obscure Chinese restaurant in Honolulu's Waikiki section where good chop suey is to be had. Full of good spirits, they sat around eating, laughing, talking, making merry. Centre of the group was Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue. Thalia Fortescue Massie, his wife, was also there. About them they had assembled Navy friends for a celebration because for the first time in four months Lieut. Massie and Mrs. Fortescue, with Seamen Jones and Lord, were once again legally free. Their...
...nation of Centrists, a moderate land of thrifty folk, this shift was sufficiently dramati¶ Everyone agreed that it blasted and destroyed the power of the Right Centre coalition in the Chamber of Deputies whose leader is Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Looking for the next Premier of France, the nation shifted its attention from Paris-on-the-Seine 250 miles due south to Lyon-on-the-Rhone. Lyon presented a terrific sight...
...program for this evening's concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn, Paine; Adoramus Te, Palestrina; Fire, Fire, My Heart, Morley; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo, Spanish Ladies, The Foggy Dew, English Folk Songs; Choruses from the "Mikado", Sullivan...
...town folk lead their quiet Provengal lives, disturbed only by weddings, births, funerals. Jan studies for the Church, but Christophe stays in his father's shop along with Anfos. His father has been almost crowded out of business by a shopkeeper from Paris, who opens a furniture store in Saint Loup, tries to modernize the town. Jousé fights these developments until a stroke of apoplexy lays him low. It seems that the Bénédit family will be ruined, but the War intervenes. Modernization in Saint Loup comes to an end. and the bankrupt shopkeeper...