Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Capone, Chicago gangster, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, sent out word that the city's petty "chiselers" (extortioners) must cease' annoying theatrical folk for "benefit money." The Capone order was occasioned by Actress Francine Larrimore's receiving a demand for $1,000. Eddie Cantor, Musicomedy Clown, denied that he had been chiseled into singing at Mr. Capone's Cotton Club...
...Rocked and resounded with gallant cries of "Hear, hear!" from members of all three parties as Conservative Captain Victor Cazalet, smart socialite and admirer of U. S. rich folk, proposed a bill which both male and female M. P.'s think will please women. If passed, a woman who marries a foreigner will have the option of remaining a subject of George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government...
Following this the Choral Society will sing two songs from Shakespeare--"Full Fathom Five" by John Ireland and "It was a Lover and His Lass" by H. Vaughan Williams; "Cherry Stones" by the Marquis of Bland ford; and "Follow Me Down to Carlow", an Irish folk song...
After the joint chorus has sung six love songs from opus 52 and opus 65 of Johannes Brahms, the Glee Club will continue with "Marching" by Brahms, the "Summer Evening" by Salim Palmgren, and three Welsh folk songs--"O Why Camest Thou", "Men of Harlech", and "The Monks' March...
...Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...