Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peepul. He had saved up a little nestegg of $100,000,000 out of his earnings as a secretary to Edison and felt reasonably well-fortified against a rainy day. He disliked money and hoped he never made another nickel, But he was continually hounded by common folk insisting that he take their savings to invest. Sam didn't want to do it. He had planned on putting his own money into some power companies he thought of forming. But Sam knew that there were unscrupulous persons about all ready to rob the unwary investors and, friend...
...repaired while the train coasted down a 20 mi. incline. These vexations overcome, Zephyr began to show her heels-80, 90, 100, 110, 112.5 m.p.h. In the rear solarium some coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves at 90 m. p. h. Twice "Zeph," the burro, toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed...
...died of his wounds. Better known as Lampedo (the lamp post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...
...years Dr. Joseph L. Miller, 59, of small Thomas, W. Va. has been mending coal miners, delivering their women, treating their families. The hillbillies in turn have taught him their folk remedies, a list of which he read to a Medical Library Association meeting in Baltimore last week. Among remedies which Dr. Thomas found West Virginians using and which he thought big city folks doubtless use, were...
...Hostile Valley," Mr. Williams turns his facile hand to a tale of country folk in an isolated valley. His plot concerns the effect of one personality in disrupting an otherwise peaceful community and of the love of Jenny Pierce for Will Ferrin...