Word: larking
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...begins when Niven's father brings a newly-orphaned girl named Lark into the house. Niven, aged five, takes an immediate liking to her, but his sister--who distinguishes herself as a real five-star nogoodnick throughout--feels otherwise, and manages to make the two of them acutely unhappy for twenty years, at the end of which time they fall violently in love, reveal their burning passions to each other, but part forever due to a clever bit of trickery on the part of the sister...
...result of a lark, the children and their tutor find themselves lost in the mountains, penniless and hungry. They stumble through the parched and worn country; they are chased out of the estate of a decrepit Fascist nobleman; and they are finally held captive by an anti-Fascist fugitive, Renato Spinelli, who fears that they would unwittingly betray him if he let them go. The haggard Spinelli plans a heroic public death for himself, since he knows that he cannot escape. But Frances falls in love with him and persuades him to try to escape with her, only to involve...
They say a dude set off 17 sticks of blasting powder across the river last week, and blew up a goodly portion of riverbank along with it. 17 sticks is a powerful lot of dynamite, even for a lark. It wasn't very thoughtful of him either, cause the City of Boston spent a pile of money a few years back filling in the very same hole he blew the dirt...
...were not sufficient preparation for the Hindemith and Copland with which the program closed. Although they fitted in far better than would any Classical or Romantic music, several of the Hindemith songs were spent adjusting the audience to modern dissonance and counterpoint. In the last selection, Copland's pictorial "Lark," Paul Tibbetts' magnificent baritone solo reaffirmed the eloquence and competence of the group's first rate performance...
That night Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with jowl) put on a boiled shirt and shook hands with 3,000 of his new charges at a party in the women's gymnasium. Next day he and Mrs. Sproul boarded the streamlined Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with...