Word: larks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest in looking up the few friends left who remember, and in preaching on street corners whenever a crowd will gather. He asks no favors, but this genuine Chinese hero would hardly be complimented to know that his likeness had been mistaken for one of China's most questionable...
...Lily de Lyse, who once played with Jimmy Durante in a Manhattan night club, sniffed: "Me nude? I'm an actress. This is a job, non?" A Guild manifesto requested newspaper critics "to view the show with an open mind, and not as writers out on a unique lark...
Nearly the entire civic administration of Mt. Vernon, representatives of every church and the Bible Society, showed up for the preview performance. After watching the cast bridle through its paces, the women in baggy underwear and aprons, the men in shorts and collars, the audience voted the nudist lark "depressingly modest...
...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...