Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-dimensional faces belonged to leaders of Washington's largo Negro population who turned out in formal attire to witness the unveiling of the portraits. They had come to pay homage to a little administrative island in the U. S. Government which has remained in charge of colored folk for most of the past 60 years...
...upon 16 of the accused, several of whom had long annoyed Stalin by timid carping at his policies, and this trial is still in retrospect so stirring that in Manhattan last week pinks and reds of various hues held a monster mass meeting about it, addressed by such harmless folk as Norman Thomas...
...that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...
...Book-of-the-Month Club offered its members a weird, wild-eyed novel that has all the elements of a good ghost story except a ghost. To compensate for this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily be mistaken for apparitions, and engaged in actions that seem far better suited to the nether regions than to solid earth...
...last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...