Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover had been booed by rooters at the Philadelphia World Series baseball game. Sports Editors Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News and Joe Williams of the World Telegram reported booing. The Associated Press heard none. Consensus was that on the entry and exit of President Hoover, respectful folk in the grandstand near him cheered, folk in the bleachers, farther away, jeered...
...Press had been fully instructed, but the general public had some difficulty in getting into New York's newest art rooms last week, the American Folk Art Gallery. The A. F. A. G.'s mission, say its promoters, is to exhibit and sell American Primitives. Connected with the enterprise as an adviser is little, round Holger Cahill, onetime press-agent and at present consultant for the Newark Museum...
...features of the Whitney Museum's opening. Mr. Cahill is accused of admiring the Whitney Museum collection sufficiently to imitate the idea, spoil the Whitney Museum's surprise. Critics paid little attention to the Whitney-Cahill tiff but did raise surprised eyebrows in the American Folk Art Gallery. Most of the American primitive paintings seen in Newark, yet to be seen in the Whitney Museum, either were sufficiently well painted to stand on their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There...
...President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation. It was the voice once more of the democratic frontier, of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln...
Then there are multitudes of the "white-collared" class, who cannot afford private nurses and who cannot endure the nursing of free medical services. Elnora E. Thompson, president of the Nurses' Association, last week called white-collar folk "the greatest unnursed group of a community." To meet the needs of such "unnursed," the nurses are experimenting with service by the hour. Although the nurse thus is relegated to the catch-as-catch-can employment of an apartment housemaid, she may earn a maximum of $2 or $3 an hour...