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Word: larking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented the superpatriotic Chicago Tribune: "They will be a disturbance wherever they go if not a potential danger. . . . The bummers were said to be in good humor, but there was the nucleus of a destructive mob. ... If this is a lark, what's a riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bummers | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...page of "news flashes," thus: "Production on Noah's Lark . . . was halted yesterday when it was discovered that Paula Pushova, the star, couldn't say Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hullabaloo | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman and his porky wife argue good-naturedly in still another. The last group consists of a dying novelist, his wife and two charming children. At the close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Other books: The Troll Garden, The Bohemian Girl, Alexander's Bridge, 0 Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, Youth and the Bright Medusa, The Professor's House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, N. Y. the will of the late Sumner H. Lark bequeathed $1 to his widow, saying: "I suppose she will tear it into pieces as she did one time with a $10 bill I gave her to buy food for the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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