Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying Buttress of Peace. The House of Chamberlain snipped and whacked away in London making shoes for 130 years. Their babes were suckled and their old folk died in bed above their shoemaking or "cordwaining" * shop. The Prime Minister today is an honorary member of the Cordwainers' Company...
...Negro brethren. Known or not, however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro, N.C.'s Robert Nathaniel Dett, long famed as the smart, musically sophisticated leader of the Hampton Institute Choir...
Enterprising reporters from Baltimore, Washington and New York soon discovered that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
...soldiers, as they withdrew, gave bystanders dark scowls and muttered oaths, the Czech officers avoided meeting civilian eyes, discharged their bitter duty with compressed lips. Nazi folk of the Sudeten town of Cesky Krumlov were the first Germans to dishonor themselves by opening dastardly fire upon the retreating Czech soldiers' backs. These Sudetens were also the first to smash windows and pillage shops and homes owned by Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia...
...worse case. More than four in every ten of their stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...