Word: lark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year, v. last year's loss...
...city-owned ball field, plus a series of "breakfast seminars" conducted by scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin-Columbine story to music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. The ballet's major character innovations...
Innocents Abroad. In sharp contrast, Johansson had turned his training into what often seemed like a lark in the country. He moved into a $100,000 cottage at the celebrity-wooing Grossinger's in the Catskills. From Sweden he imported his parents, his brothers, his sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags...
Multi-octaved Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, happy as a lark, checked into Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Palace Hotel, registered in the same suite as her manager, ex-Husband Moises Vivanco, who was divorced by her after he admitted that he was the papa of Yma's secretary's twin girls. Diva Sumac's current Latin American tour will take her soon to Brazil's brave new, jungle-fringed capital of Brasilia. There, announced Yma, she will remarry Vivanco, just as if nothing had ever happened. Planting a soulful kiss on Vivanco's lips...
...Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments plus 5,000 "dollars" for every visit. On Memorial Day, in exchange for the play money, RCA Victor auctioned off a stereo set, a color TV set, 500 real dollars worth of clothes, a trip for two to Europe, and a Studebaker Lark to the highest bidders-and the bidders by that time were high all right...