Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curiosities or quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
This year resilient Oldster Sargent had most fun parading the folklore of U. S. education. Most fantastic folkway, lie found, is commencement, "the greatest folk festival the world has known." Counting graduates, mothers, fathers, sisters, cousins and aunts, some 25,000,000 U. S. citizens take part in this festival each June
...stand a good chance of being lost in the shuffle. First, it is published by a university press; second, its title makes it sound like a book on botany. But Purslane is worth a top place on any publisher's list. The first novel of a North Carolina folk-play writer, Purslane will remind most readers of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' South Moon Under. Unsentimental, authentic, humorous, moving, it tells a tale of a North Carolina hill family at the turn of the century...
...Fullers of Pate's Siding and their kin have far more in common with hard-working U. S. farmers of the West than with the bizarre, demoralized crackers of Erskine Caldwell's books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively...
Harrison M. Rainie, Jr. '40 will be the soloist in a varied program consisting of the Harvard Hymn; two choruses from II Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa; Miserere by Allegri; choruses from the Birds of Aristophanes by John K. Paine; Nagdlein Im Walde, a Czechoslovakian folk song arranged by Dvorak; Bachanale from La Belle Helena by Offenbach; and choruses from Iolanthe...