Word: townsfolk
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England's gypsy tribes, many of them, are unusual in this respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today...
...with his dog. Last week the two went for a walk. Lost in abstraction, M. Joerg started to cross a railroad track; a train leaped out of the twilight, sprang at his shoulder like a huge beast, spun him around through the air, smashed his legs against a fence. Townsfolk came running-stopped, terrified, a dozen yards from the moaning, broken body. At Joerg's feet crouched the dog. Something had hurt his master, let no one else try it. The dark snarling beast, the little circle of white faces, the bloody bundle on the ground. For an hour...
Austrian, thereby incurring the enmity of the patriotic townsfolk. "A turn-coat," they called her, accused her of having encouraged propaganda unfavorable to the interests of Czecho-Slovakia...
...Brussels got busy. His popularity dated back to the fall of 1914, when the Germans were goose-stepping across Belgium in seven-league boots. General Von Suttwitz ordered Max arrested. It was done. Next day. Max was at Namur. A few days later, at Glatz-interned. His townsfolk posted placards-they warned the Germans that they had gasoline, vitriol, butcher knives, and would use them if Max were injured. After languishing four years in a German camp, Max returned. Today, he leads the Liberals in the Chamber of Deputies. He looked upon the Van de Vyvere kitten Cabinet and decided...
...much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting of the townsfolk to defend the editorials which had been dashed from Joe's fiery pen. He said quite frankly that he couldn't make a speech, and we thought ourselves that perhaps it might be just as well if he didn't. But the arrival of his two hundred pound father from...