Word: folks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With such folk as the Socialists we can only talk with whips in our hands!" shouted General Hess, a onetime Imperial Austrian Corps Commander, haranguing 1,500 Heimwehr at Waidhofen. "Steady, men! Keep your rifles at the ready!" warned the Socialist organ Arbeiter-Zeitung. "Wait until the Heimwehr attack. Then let them taste steel...
Curiously illogical is the influence of morals and manners on the fortunes of musical and theatrical folk. Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one knew, with Edward VII and others. Moral protests arise where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore...
...tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics" as that frivolous term is commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts...
Notable among the singers at the Banff Festival was Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, composer, concert-singer of Scottish music, famed for her rediscovery of Hebridean folk songs. She comes from a family known in the lowlands as the "Singing Kennedys" and has spent many years in the Hebrides Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland, learning the songs of the native crofters and singing them to exiled Scots in the colonies. She traveled to Banff from Scotland especially for the festival...
North Atlantic codfish frolicked free last week, their doom of cream sauce deferred, while four of Gloucester's fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within...