Word: harking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hark, Hark, the Lark. For the more dignified, there were such things as the sonnet-writing contests held regularly in the home of Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford would say reflectively: "We were making a night attack. I had gone ahead to reconnoiter. I was crawling along on my-er-stomach when suddenly, above the roar of battle, I heard a sound-it was larks singing. Then I looked up and saw that it was light...
That night, when Mr. Silkin rose to speak at the town hall, he was greeted with yells of "Gestapo!" "Hark, the dictator!" "We want our birthright!" Red-faced Mr. Silkin shouted back: "Really, you are the most ungenerous people...
...towns that bear Abe Lincoln's name, the one in Illinois (pop. 12,750) got there first. Townsfolk proudly hark back to a homely ceremony in 1853 when Abe Lincoln, a local attorney, broke open a peddler's watermelon, scattered the seeds along the Chicago & Mississippi tracks. "Now," said Abe, "this town is duly christened...
Richards' own translation of Plato's Republic into Basic-he used 150 extra words besides-sounds as dry as Poet Richard Greene's satirical Basic version of Hark, Hark, the Lark (which also uses some unBasic words...
Christmas Hymns (victor Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Gifted Choral Conductor Shaw (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943) gives distinction as well as fervor to an anthology of oldtime choruses like Adeste Fideles and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Recording: good...