Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic in its inconspicuousness...
...keenly interested in a recent addendum to your editorial masthead. Eustace Tilley was the firstborn of poor but honest peasant folk who domiciled on our landed estates in the neighborhood of Flushing, L. I. At an early age I recognized in him the guiding genius and spark which has, I am sure, contributed in no small way to his promotion to the editorial staff of your succinct and pithy publication...
...Newshawks who few weeks ago reported that Germany's famed folk song, Heinrich Heine's Lorelei, had been banned because its author was a Jew, discovered that Dr. Ley had nonetheless named his newborn daughter Lore...
...almost all squatters' huts or beach houses. The Rogers' home was evacuated because Will Rogers Jr. and his brother Jim wanted to amuse themselves by putting out the nearest tongues of flame with a garden hose. Leo Carrillo's was evacuated because unlike less energetic movie folk who watched the flames from their porches, he preferred the excitement of riding close on his sleek white horse...
That is not correct; my reading, like my husband's, is very wide. I can tell you that I have learned the old Greek poets, in their translations, for as long as I can remember.'' Mrs. Chamberlain went on to confide to the book folk that she is thinking of writing a book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared...