Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
...even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil war of letters...
...proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor's Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they pounced reverently on the babe, meticulously ascertained that he was 50 centimetres long (about 19 3/4 in.), weighed 7 lb., 3 oz. With bumble folk kneeling outside the Palace gate in freezing weather, a stream of princes, dignitaries and ambassadors began to roll in with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive...
...London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from the King, with menaces...
...many places it seems to me to be disgusting but although it contains, as I have mentioned above, many words usually considered dirty, I have not found anything that I consider to be dirt for dirt's sake. If one does not wish to associate with such folk as Joyce describes, that is one's own choice. . . . But when such a real artist as Joyce undoubtedly is, seeks to draw a true picture of the lower middle class in a European city, ought it to be impossible for the American public legally to see that picture...