Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nothing can be less wise than to allow those hours of darkness to become hours of inactive gloom. The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites...
...most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...
...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...
Quiet, pious folk, the Mennonites own no authority outside the Bible and enlightened conscience, disown war, infant baptism, jury duty and the taking of oaths. Most of them are thrifty, hardworking farmers, but lately many have entered industry. Chief problem which confronted last week's conference was that of industrial strife, which Mennonites abhor as much as they...
...that all this "unconscious literature" is "an integral part of child life," as inevitable and necessary as the smoking-room stories with which politicians and even professors give "meaning and significance to otherwise unwieldy subjects." She suggests that parents and teachers recognize the educational value of children's folk literature, that writers for children use it as a model. Says she, sagely: "[Children's] humor involves a laugh at the simpleton. But perhaps children love the simpleton better than the wise...