Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myron Selznick, Hollywood talent agent, put $6,000 on his own entry. The $50 parimutuel windows trailed long queues of cinema celebrities, the $5 windows were stampeded. Over $1,370,000 was bet in four hours. It was a holiday in Hollywood and most studio folk, from Clark Gable down to the lowliest stagehand, were among the 60,000 people celebrating Washington's Birthday with a day at the races...
...Last year the 20 major Protestant denominations of the U. S. collected $15,000,000 more than the year before. So last week reported the United Stewardship Council, representing 23 U. S. and Canadian churches. The council's report bore out the familiar U. S. dogma that country folk are more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next...
...like than most volumes of historical inquiry. Why, asked the novelist, did stories like this one of Joseph echo from generation to generation? He answered: "Very deep is the well of the past." Recorded history, he said, goes only a little way into that well. Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends-"pious abbreviations" of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their own experience. And while both Joseph and His Brothers and its sequel Young Joseph contained the lifelike characterizations that readers of Thomas...
...bubbling enthusiasm for farming, Farmer Smart admits that his only successful crop so far has been "ideas, sensations, intuitions, feelings, sympathies, and delight in action." For city folk, his much-repeated moral is: Don't take up farming unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...
...columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material in a Rolls-Royce. Part of his legacy: 50 columns written...