Word: lark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...
...Yalta, onetime fashionable resort, 1,300 fugitives fought vainly for a place on a departing steamer. At Balaklava, famed for the charge of the Light Brigade, houses toppled. At Miskhor the tower of the "Lark's Nest" (famed villa) fell from its lofty perch down the cliffs into...
...classical selections in "Copey's" anthology there is, of course, a great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...Pops concert for tonight, the Boston Conservatory of Music night, is as follows: Marche Militaire *Schubert Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Eili, Eili Arranged byJacchia (Trumpet Solo: Georges Mager) Fantasia, "Lohengrin" Wagner Rhapsody in E-flat *Brahms Polonaise from "Eugen Onegin" Tchaikovsky The Lark *Glinka Hymn to the Sun from "Iris" Mascagni Chorale and Minuet Gothique *Boellmann (Organ Solo: Albert W. Snow. Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2 *Moszkovski Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel (*Orchestrated by AGIDE JACCHIA...
...view of indignant Boston as follows: "This fatal mistake turned the play into a howling failure. The Harvard men came, in numbers large enough to fill the boxes on each side of the stage. . . . They were mostly 'cubs' of the crazily merry type of students out for a lark and determined to guy everybody with in jostling and hearing distance...