Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the acts of "East Lynne." which will be given by the Winthrop House Dramatic Club on April 22 and 23, the House Glee Club will give a concert. The Club has been rehearsing for a month and the program will consist of semi-classical music, Negro spirituals, and folk songs. Ernest Sachs '38 is director, and William W. Austin '39 accompanist...
...Reds scowled, but voted for the financial volte-face of Blum, the Pinks voted for it, and virtually the whole Chamber voted for it by the tremendous majority of 470 to 46. That might seem excruciatingly funny to some women, but to the enormous majority of steadygoing French folk it seemed like a godsend. Two nights later they heard on the radio President Albert Lebrun, a figure much esteemed for his dignified embodiment of the point of view of a small-town Frenchman, tell them that the entire nation must lay aside partisanship and buy up the loan...
...Bayou, 20 miles from the Louisiana line, busy Jefferson shipped cotton, flour, pork, wool, hides, beeves and beeswax over the then navigable bayou waters to Caddo Lake, thence down the Red River to the Mississippi, New Orleans and the sea. During Reconstruction and after, Jefferson sheltered some 35,000 folk, their bustling business centring around the city's slave-built courthouse and its mile of docks...
...casually. Some years ago it was my privilege to have a rather lengthy conversation with Jake concerning the predicament that a faulty gland had placed him in; he has a philosophy that enables him to accept his lot in a manner that should make a lot of us "normal" folk envious of him. ROBERT M. JACKSOX Clerk Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds United States Senate Washington...
...dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person, gains substantiation when Tim Clarke, her cousin, testifies that when he saw her with somebody she said she was with...