Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glee Club's program will include: two Italian folk songs; a French selection, "Les Anges"; a chorus from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "Tutti Venite Amati"; choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patienco"; "Glorious Apollo"; and "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Joachim Des Pres...
...kind of man who pays his debts, faces his business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision on the high school affair is nothing...
...seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...appeared that this person was engaged to marry the honest vegetable peddler Martinus van Stijn and wished to do so on the day of the Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday...
Also in the choral line are the two concerts by the oft-heard and ever popular Vienna Choir Boys, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This unusual group not only sings sacred pieces, folk songs, and the like, but also gives one-act operettas in costume with all appropriate acting and staging...