Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hakodate's great wind last week marched Hakodate's great fire down the sandy isthmus of the poor folk, to the office buildings, hotels and banks along modern Ginya Boulevard, through the fine houses of the residential section, up to the base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned...
Among the most recent releases from Victor is Dvorak's Quartet in G major, played by the Prague String Quartet is most musical and unmusical folk know Dvorak is permeated with the national-istor folk-music spirit. This quartet is also built on such melodies and rhythyms. It has a bewitching Andante that is obviously sentimental but also passionate. The bohemian performers of the work have played it with unabashed exaggeration of its sentimentality and accentuation of the "native" rhythyms. The admirers of Sibelius' Second Symphony may be interested in the Columbia recording by one Robert Kajanus and a Symphony...
Other Bolinas folk were lucky too, and soon about 300 lb. had been amassed. Then followed days of dreadful suspense. All Bolinas could not scrape together $15 for a professional analysis of its treasure. Finally last week the San Francisco Examiner got a local firm of chemists to test a sample of the Pepper find. It, too, assayed 70% ambergris...
...theatrical was his appearance, so unbelievable was his career that simple domestic folk are apt to think that Gregory Rasputin never really existed. He did. There are many people living who knew him well...
...Chris and her parson husband, Robert, went to the little town of Segget they found the inhabitants a dour, gnarled lot. Chris was a woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized...