Word: larking
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...family life was altered somewhat when The Eye brought home little Lark. Her parents, both singers, had been killed in a train wreck. She was different from the Danes, gay and dreamy; Rolls fell in love with her. But Selina soon subdued her. After a few years, life with the Danes became intolerable for Lark. She ran away and married an Italian nobleman...
Author Godden (Black Narcissus) saves the mellow, memory-filled house for the family by having Rolls buy it as a present for his niece Grizel. Then a Nazi bomb caves in one of its walls, crushing out Rolls's life. Dying, he summons the spirit of Lark for a last talk. "Those [past] . . . actions were like thorns and wounds in our minds," says Lark. "But that is all over." "I love you, Lark," cries Rolls. "I love you. How much I love...
Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
...some six weeks he was mad as a hatter and happy as a lark. He saw signs and portents everywhere. When he proclaimed the Second Coming at the World's Fair, he was unsympathetically bundled off to the city hospital for observation, a "purification" he cheerfully endured. Transferred to a state hospital, he was cruelly beaten for a supposed misdemeanor. "After that beating," said Mike, "I was more sane than insane." In a few weeks, without further treatment, he was released...
...Halifax, a taxi driver got $2,000 for his son's education, a hotel clerk got $1,000 for no reason at all, a telephone operator $500. Back on another visit to the Toronto hospital, McLean ran through $6,000 in short order, left happy as a lark with 13? in his jeans...