Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both brothers found the call of their old homestead and neighbors in Lancaster County too strong to resist. Says George: "They are plain folk but friendly and hospitable. Only thing is they put food on the table and you got to reach for it if you want any. Otherwise you don't get nothing. I guess that characterizes the Dutch around here...
When Philadelphian Joseph E. Widener announced that his late father's famed art collection would go to Washington's new National Gallery, disinherited Philadelphia museum folk kept a disappointed silence, but last week, seeing a chance that Widener might have to change his mind, they howled...
...beneficiary should pay any taxes, and the National Gallery has no appropriation for that, something had to be done. So a friendly representative, Reuben E. Cohen, introduced a bill in the State Legislature exempting such bequests from the tax. In a burst of uncorighteous indignation last week Philadelphia museum folk joined the newspapers in attacking the Cohen Bill as an attempted tax dodge by Wideners and Mellons. Either, they demanded, the Widener art must stay in Pennsylvania or the Wideners and Mellons must fork up what the museum folk estimated might be 10% of Pennsylvania's 1941 tax bill...
Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...
...Pereti Autem", by Mendelssohn; "Glorius Apollo," by Webbe; "Glee: To all you Ladies," by Holst; Brass Music from the tower of the Memorial Church played by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; "Turn Musik," by Gabrielli; Elegy, "Come Shepherds, we'll follow the hearse", by Arne: English folk song, "The Turtle Dove", arranged by Vaughan Williams; Two Choruses from Patience, by Sullivan; and "Harvard to the Harvard Team...