Word: larking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the indomitable English "lower classes'' made a lark of the Ascot deluge. Nips of whiskey were not disdained by young or old. As groaning busses got under way both men and women removed major portions of their outer clothing, hilariously hung them up to dry, rattled flapping and roistering home...
...Show. Champions of six classes-a Pekingese, a wire-haired fox terrier, a beagle, an English bulldog, a shepherd and an Irish setter-paraded at last. The judges gave the gate to Delaware Kate, seemed wary of the famed shepherd, Giralda's Lola. Would they like Champion Meadow Lark Watchman, the merry beagle? A hound-dog is rarely judged champion of champions, and last year a collie beat a wire-haired fox-terrier. The judge went back to Giralda's Lola, and narrowed his job down to her, the beagle, and Pendley Calling of Blarney, the wire-haired...
...adequate and thorough as was to be expected from so expert a commentator. Some space might have been found for a discussion of Shakspere's relation to Lyly--not in the 'Pinch him' song of Falstaff's malaise where the comment suffices, but in the 'Hark! Hark! the lark' aubade from Cymbeline. The gloss ignores Trico's song in Campaspe...