Word: larking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...wasn't a lark by any means. No question but that the road was rough at times, and we did ford a few streams (this was the rainy season). But we have encountered plenty of rough road during construction right here in Connecticut and up in New Hampshire...
...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...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...
CONGRATULATIONS ON A TIMELY AND COMPETENT JOB OF REPORTING ON "DINOSAUR HUNTER" GEORGE ROMNEY [April 6]. TIME WILL PROVE BOTH OF US "RIGHT"-MY GOOD FRIEND GEORGE, AND US AT STUDEBAKER WITH OUR LARK IN GIVING THE MOTORING PUBLIC WHAT IT WANTS IN SENSIBLE, ECONOMICAL, COMPACT CARS...