Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe Dance Group will highlight an all-Annex dance fest in Agassiz Living Room Wednesday afternoon, March 30. Regular athletic classes in folk, modern, and ballroom dancing will coach give a short presentation of various choreographic forms at the get-together...
Revival after a seven-year lapse of Lowell tradition of presenting an opera annually has been received enthusiastically by Boston and Cambridge academic and society folk, who have swung a measure of financial support behind the project...
...Leewards' working folk, whose income averages some $50 a year, liked Lord Baldwin fine. He plumped for unemployment insurance, hospitals and new industries. He dug deep into his own pocket to provide schooling for native children, and spent ?150 ($600) to bring a water-diviner from Jamaica to find wells on the parched islands. He told the Antigua legislature: "Being the only governor you've had who's been in prison [he was twice captured, once by the Turks and once by the Bolsheviks, while fighting as a volunteer for the Armenians in 1921], I naturally take...
Perhaps, a few critics gently suggested, one should know a little more than that. Commented the London Daily Mail (under the headline HUNTIN', SHOOTIN' AND PAINTIN') : "Many of the prints and canvases are aesthetically worthless; more of them are to be regarded as entertaining examples of folk art equivalent to Toby jugs and samplers...
...present some sort of award to an authentic celebrity. This tried & true device has been put to good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with his 1949 dinner to honor Methodist Bishop...