Word: larking
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...beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need to go back to China. Says he: "Why should the meadow lark carry food to the sea-gull's children when her own young are famished?-Ezekiel Cobb...
Home cooking is not entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace...
...Another freak racing accident occurred on the second day of racing at Belmont. Samuel Riddle's All Aflame was leading in the Lark Purse, Jockey Charlie Kurtsinger up, when suddenly the colt shied at the crowd's cheers, bolted to the inside rail, crossed legs, tripped, fell. Jockey Don Meade and Queen's Flag tumbled over the fallen horse and rider. All Aflame broke his shoulder and was killed. Jockeys Kurtsinger & Meade miraculously escaped injury...
...Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office...
...Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office...