Word: larking
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...introduce untold thousands of children and adults to the joys of producing music; so it is all the more dazzling to hear Krainis' virtuoso display as he whistles through concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel without a tripped note or an empty breath sucked in-like a lark with the lungs of a lion...
...from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County, a quaintly sybaritic suburb of New York City. The picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt to drown his troubles with what he thinks is a lark - a nine-pool, cross-country swim and portage to his home. But the real lark is for the Fairfield gawkers to watch a film com pany at work in their own backyards...
Nightingale conceived of his lark while sitting on a local beach with a Cliffie, "who does go here during the winter". They both thought it would be nice to let people know who's who, so the button was born...
...including Rosa Ponselle, Marian Anderson, Artur Rubinstein and George Gershwin; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The wife of a wealthy lawyer, "Minnie," as concertgoers called her, knew little or nothing about music-except that she liked it and wanted everybody else to. She started promoting concerts as a lark in 1918, carried on for the rest of her life and grew famous, both for her ability to squeeze money from the flintiest skin and for such delightful intermission announcements as "We will now hear an operetta by Gilbert and Solomon...
...Lark. Training-school officials have to tread a thin line between mak ing school a pleasant experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think...