Word: larking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succumb to the blandishments of the Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars (about...
...except for a brief surrealistic lark when Betsy runs off to New York with her captive sisters, the novel dredges a long, dry stream-bed of consciousness...
Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights...
...under the dominance of his stingy elder brother George II, the easygoing Crown Prince spent most of his time away from Greece, aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time he married Frederika, at the age of 36 (she was 20), restless, roaming Paul was more than ready to settle down...
...chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman appears and enters the lists (and the hut) with the lady...