Word: larking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another freak racing accident occurred on the second day of racing at Belmont. Samuel Riddle's All Aflame was leading in the Lark Purse, Jockey Charlie Kurtsinger up, when suddenly the colt shied at the crowd's cheers, bolted to the inside rail, crossed legs, tripped, fell. Jockey Don Meade and Queen's Flag tumbled over the fallen horse and rider. All Aflame broke his shoulder and was killed. Jockeys Kurtsinger & Meade miraculously escaped injury...
...Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office...
...Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office...
...crucial test will. I think, come within a few days. Up until now the mobs have been composed of many discordant elements. Socialists, Communists, Royalists, and hoodlums, plus a great many citizens out for a lark, rioting without any specific end in view. so far the police have kept the crowd under control--but only with machine guns. If all this is necessary to cow a leaderless mob, what will happen when the rioters are directed by capable leaders who know what they want? If, then, in the next few days the revolt is given some directive force, France will...
Never naive, usually well-informed about the people he met, on one occasion Bennett was a little slow on the uptake. After a lunch with Mrs. William Randolph Hearst he confided to his Journal: "The lunch was a great lark, and I enjoyed it. Mrs. Hearst very pretty, even beautiful and well preserved. She had a 'down" on film-stars...