Word: folke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...colored president of the State Industrial College for Negroes (Savannah, Ga.), pleaded with unemployed Harlem Negroes to come back home. He pictured the South as a Land of Canaan. He assured Harlem that racial disagreement was a thing of the past in the South, told of eating with white folk in Atlanta hotels, speaking before the Legislature. Mourned...
...less susceptible to scrutiny than reputation. Put to the test, the savoir faire, savoir dire of the hardiest drollo in our midst would be hard put to it to approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...genuine talent on several pitiably bad songs. He cracks appallingly stale jokes-among them, the one about the girl who resents having her beauty compared to an old Rembrandt. In Act II, however, Comedienne Patsy Kelly capers through some coarse monkeyshines. Mr. Jolson sings a Yiddish folk song which is eminently successful and which anyone can understand, two spry and clever Negro dancers named Carol Chilton and Maceo Thomas appear. First night spectators, seeing Mr. Jolson's pretty wife Ruby Keeler in their midst, wished that she too would get up on the stage and help out the show...
...retrieve this stupid blunder. To the crestfallen promoters the Prince of Wales estimated that he personally had persuaded at least 2,000 South Americans who would not otherwise have come to visit the fair?no petty achievement for the "Empire Salesman" since most of those personally persuaded were potent folk...
Gray Shadow. A man who has made a practice of murdering folk and claiming their insurance money is mysteriously called the Gray Shadow. When an eccentric recluse is quietly interred in an English country churchyard, his absent ward, the insurance company's detectives and finally the police suspect foul play. They study the circumstances surrounding his burial and in doing so they find the Gray Shadow. The proceedings are not very scarey...