Word: larking
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...capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes this point only as an aside in his attempt to show that Scottish poetry "incomparably exemplifies" his belief that "Life is Mind out for a lark...
AWAKE DEBORAH-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.50). Long golden hair woven into a Dartmoor heath lark's nest is the first clue to murder that stirs an English botanist out of his dignified ease and sadly perplexes Scotland Yard. Lengthy, but impressive story in the grand English tradition...
When the alarm came, no one took it particularly seriously. Just another nuisance raid, most people thought. The Jerries zoomed over in waves, but no bombs seemed to drop for a long time. A few fire bombs began falling. People drove to watch fires for a lark...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 19, blue-eyed cinema lark; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer (son of Val Paul, Universal studio manager), her only beau; in Los Angeles' Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church, with 900 screen folk looking...
...together. In Jezebel Brent died dueling. In Dark Victory a brain tumor dispatched Miss Davis. Then it was Brent's turn again: he failed to live through The Old Maid. In The Great Lie they finally make it. The end leaves them in each other's arms, lark-happy...