Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) re-entered the Government as Lord Privy Seal. A benevolent old pirate with indefatigable asthma, he is contemptuous of anyone who does not admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more...
Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...
...Radcliffe Choral Society then rendered a few selections for women's chorus alone including three Hungarian Folk Songs by Bela Bartok; "Only Tell Me", "Do Not Leave Me", and the "Teasing Song". They also sang "Awake Ye Wintry Earth", a Dutch chorale of the sixteenth century, and the Bach Chorale "Now All the Woods Are Sleeping...