Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that the folk of the town of Maragogy, 60 miles north of Maceio, would know more. There Senhor Ayres Costa, a former mayor of great dignity, was willing to say: "I haven't the slightest doubt that this was naval combat, as shots, characteristic of a cannonade, were heard closely by all the populace...
...receive several long-distance telephone calls (via lackey holding portable phone) while lunching at Hollywood's Brown Derby is to acquire izzat. To work for a mere $1,000 a week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...
...case of Evelyn Duncan was a distinctly British variation of a distinctly Russian folk tune. In one week 21-year-old Evelyn made the amazing number of 6,150 shell components. She was given a bonus for her speedup. With it she bought 25 of Winston Churchill's favorite cigars, marked their box with the inscription: "From Evelyn Duncan, holder of the world's munition record." As the Prime Minister toured Birmingham's bombed areas, she ran through a police cordon, handed Winnie the cigars, kissed his hand. Said Winnie, gruffly: "Thank you very much, my dear...
...approached, he seemed the permanent embodiment of learning. He was apparently a Harvard institution, and, as happens with all institution, a body of legend, most of it untrue, had grown up around him. It is an indica-of how symbolic a figure he was that so many modern folk tales ( a form of literature he loved) had him for their hero...
...themes [of great literature] are those by virtue of which the race has risen-courage, justice, mercy, honor, love . . . . Has not the time come to restore the American classics? . . . . A few American classics are . . . . important for everybody . . . . a few . . . . important for us. Such, for example, is Whittier, as the folk poet of Snow-Bound, and also by virtue of his passion for freedom . . . . It is important for us to possess an American memory...