Word: lark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University finance officials took a dim view of Brown's spring lark, and promptly provided him with a police escort to Dean Watson's office. Watson, conversant with fiduciary matters, gracefully accepted the silver dollars, explaining: "Refusal to accept legal lender in discharge of a debt would make that debt null and void...
...students, it all seemed something of a lark at first-six expense-paid weeks in sunny Southern California. But last week, as one by one they marched up to receive their graduation certificates, Dean Lockley happily noted that they all looked "five years older . . . We have tried," said he, "to turn out men who can think...
...whistling is an art, "not a parlor trick." Pat was a conscientious student. Says Mrs. Kennedy: she "could have had a real career in whistling if she'd kept on. She did beautiful bird work; her chirps were sure and fine. She was especially good on the meadow lark...
Several out-of-state M.I.T. students also found yesterday morning that their cars had been removed by police overnight. Police Lieutenant Lark Cunningham said last night that some patrolmen had found old parking tags torn up in the street, which prompted the "clean-up" campaign. Policemen in a squad car in the Harvard Square district also reportedly told one student last night that they "were going to tow away several automobiles...
Salami for Chocolate. The Czech returnees, still glowing from their unexpected lark, had started their trip back in high holiday mood. They were given a royal send-off by G.I.s, who loaded them with chocolate bars and good wishes. They were careful to bite each bar in the hope that Czech customs men would find the candy less appetizing that way. On the other side of the border, Communist officials and newsmen were lined up to greet them. "You must be so happy to be back again," they exclaimed, "after the terrible way the Americans treated you." "Yes," said some...