Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With grace and humor Albert Frederick, Duke of York, second son of Their Majesties, solved the problem of what to say to the mechanical folk of Britain's Industrial Welfare Association, as follows: "My industrial visits do not always have the best results. I seem sometimes to place an evil spell on any machines in which I would take a special interest. They may break down or stop. Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift; another time a supposedly foolproof stamping machine ejected 40 unstamped letters for my benefit. The threads of looms...
Even Changteh was not safe enough to offer U. S. missionaries more than a place to catch their breath last week. Fleeing on by junk. 36 pious folk suddenly became aware that acute pangs of childbirth were troubling Mrs. J. E. Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous...
Father Gibson had inflamed his mountain neighbors by telling them that Dr. E. E. Moody, a general practitioner of Shelbyville, had told him that Lillian was pregnant. The backcountry folk in turn rallied hundreds of Shelbyville's rabble, marched on the court house when the trial started. In the court room, Judge Coleman heard the mob shouting outside, tried to calm spectators with the assurance that it was just some sort of Christmas parade. No parade, the mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged...
...Moscow last week the State bread stores' price to people with cards was 48 kopeks per kilo of black bread, one ruble for white. At this price Great Aristocrats (manual workers and Soviet officials) could buy 800 grams of bread per day, Small Aristocrats (white collar and professional folk) 400 grams. People without cards, such as loafers or priests, or Russians who had exhausted their card quota, paid last week in Moscow two rubles per kilo of black bread, three and a half rubles for white?or roughly four times the card prices. Often, especially outside Moscow, the cardless have...
...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...