Word: lark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiasm for the legitimate drama. Few shows have ever played profitably in the town, and the successful ones usually included in their casts such stars as Katharine Cornell and Helen Hayes, who could attract an audience in the Mojave Desert. When Hollywood stars return to the boards for a lark, they do so not in Hollywood but on Broadway and in the better-class barns of the straw-hat circuit...
...defendants-Max Schmukler and David Kardonick-were not implicated in its crimes. Defense Counsel Abraham Solomon explained: "This is just a trial of one big schlemiel* and two little schlemiels," and launched into a summation which included references to John ("Muggsy") McGraw, bridge, mah jong, and "Hark, hark! the lark...
...none has come to know him well. He has been interviewed by U. S. Newsmen Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Roy Wilson Howard. Author Emil Ludwig and Professor Jerome Davis each once had long, serious sessions with him. Playwright George Bernard Shaw and his friend, Lady Astor, went on a lark to Moscow and saw him, too. "When are you going to stop killing people?" asked the impertinent Lady Astor. "When it is no longer necessary," answered Comrade Stalin...