Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excelling in his portraits of children and young married folk. Author Weller finds his hardest going in sketches of addled Bohemians and wistful old maids, breaks down entirely in his account of a nudist, makes little progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely...
With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
...hardly necessary to recite the mad plot of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"; for at least a year it has been incorporated into our modern folk-lore. Leslie Banks is fine as one of the harassed, trouble-seeking parents, and Nova Pilbeam, since grown to royal stature in "Nine Days a Queen" is credible as the kidnapped child. And of course Peter Lorre, as the ringleader of the ugliest gang over collected within the walls of one studio, contributes that famous characterization of controlled deadly ferocity...
...snake fancier is G. Edgar Folk, the authority on piscatorial problems William L. Rumsey, Jr., other lecturers are Theodore P. Theodorides on Greece, Karl Thayer Soule, Jr., on Mexico, Central America, and Haiti, and Duncan B.M. Emrich on Current Events...
...work out the equivalent of this in Australian pounds and inwardly groan. However, I'm inside and creep into my seat. A band (nothing like it in Australia) plays the same piece of music about eight times and then leaves the field to sun-dry folk who exhort the audience to cheer...