Word: folks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once cut out meat, vegetables and milk from the rations given to adults. Each received daily, instead, half a tin of sardines, half a loaf of bread. Milk was issued only to babes, one cup per day. Repeatedly Jewish refugees who had once been folk of wealth complained that the Zionist who doled out bread and sardines treated them like beggars...
...choruses from "Ruddigore", Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, are out standing on the program of the Harvard Glee Club under the direction of A. T. Davison '05, which also includes the "Drake's Dream" of S. Coleridge-Taylor, Brahms' "Marching", two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies" and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs...
Hollis--"Porgy". A folk play with dramatic power and beauty...
...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...
There seems to be no death for unrestrained publicity. We can only rejoice in our simplicity and be glad that we are plain. The day that we attain fame and fortune is to be feared and dreaded. May we forever be humble folk who can call our lives...