Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such episodes. But today the most menacing attack comes, as it has repeatedly in the past, from the political side. In one form it is precipitated by allegedly patriotic organizations committed to maintain in schools and colleges their own particular conceptions of loyalty. The motives of these misguided folk are, I doubt not, often excellent. But they have opened the cover of Pandora's Box and we may well be fearful of the issue. For example, in many schools American history may now be taught only in terms these self appointed patriots deem desirable. Teachers who will not prostitute their...
...Calling, contrary to the notions of most city folk, is a practical necessity on farms, only becomes a standard sport at fairs throughout the U. S. Hog-callers make a noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland...
...Midsummer Night Madness he wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...
...cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...
...Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins for its coffee client next fortnight, is that everyone likes to hear other people's troubles...