Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Lindberghs at Englewood, N. J., the Kiplings at Dummerston, Vt. finally had enough of prying folk and cleared out to spend the rest of their lives in England...
...price. This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations. It has also brought her a great diversity of works of art. At one time or another Mrs. Rockefeller has collected Japanese bird and flower prints, folk art, Amerindian paintings. New England primitives, Siamese sculpture...
...most attractive features of the summer is a five-day faltboat trip down the Danube to Vienns, followed by three weeks of mountain climbing in the Austrian Alps. In past years these groups have always spent several days in the picturesque mountain village of Bad-Aussee, where swimming and folk-dancing are among the chief attractions...
...Church folk throughout the U. S. began telegraphing Secretary Perkins. The Federal Council of Churches brought Dr. Kagawa's plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...understand a single word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made them invariably exciting by her intonations, her subtle gestures...