Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being punctilious, have supplied the g. You may supply the d for an', too, if you wish. Saliva, like blood, breath, etc., has been regarded, by many peoples of the world, as having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion...
McIntyre & Heath were famed among stage folk not only as great troupers but as great pals. When young Jim McIntyre met young Tom Heath in San Antonio in 1874, both had the dust of several trouping years in their nostrils. McIntyre had specialized in buck-&-wing. Heath sang. They were both in need of a partner. They hit it off from the start, learned to settle occasional differences by flipping a coin. By 1880 they had reached Manhattan, did so well on the Bowery that they moved uptown to Tony Pastor's at the unheard-of figure...
Recently Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has made pointed remarks about Pan American's "monopoly." And the new Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...
Last week at the first of six Berkshire concerts to be given during the fortnight, the audience of 5,500-near capacity of the temporary tent-was as impeccable and polite as any in Symphony Hall or Carnegie Hall, included such folk as Violinists Efrem Zimbalist, Albert Spalding, Jacques Gordon, Mrs. E. Parmalee (Alta Rockefeller) Prentice, Dancer Ted Shawn, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller (wife of Massachusetts' onetime Governor), U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Novelist Owen Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Harkness and many another social column name. Most of them sat in boxes which were shrewdly placed...
Last week was a full one for Pumpernickle Bill. Thousands of his readers welcomed him at the annual Pennsylvania Folk Festival at Lewisburg, where they made merry with "shigs" (jigs), songs and games. His entry, the Martztowners. captured the $100 prize for the best square dance team. In the course of his rounds Pumpernickle Bill collects his people's folk lore, preserves their songs on his ubiquitous recording machine...