Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...
Tent City. The carnival is not Iowan; the auto racers and rodeo folk are not Iowan; the best horseshoe pitcher is not Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right...
...Moscow these many months Mr. Bullitt has been the one envoy of a capitalist power who fraternized with Soviet folk of every sort. He could often be seen at parties with a Red ballerina, an immemorial Russian custom. Agents of the Soviet tourist bureau, Russian concert singers and Big Reds of all sorts have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs...
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, was a riproaring, swaggering Swiss who in his short life (1493-1541) completely upset the medieval practice of medicine. He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company." He believed in gnomes, sylvans, sprites, salamanders, macrocosms, microcosms. He knew botany, alchemy. He feared no man and he broke the laws of his profession, his Government and his God. Before he died as the result of being stabbed in a tavern...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...