Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utica Birmingham...
First, $2,000?Robert Sessions of Birmingham, Ala; aged...
...nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique...
...spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended for their wit upon salaciousness...
...boyhood in Michigan and while he was an undergraduate at Oxford, he spent three of his long vacations as pastor at Richmond, Maine. Since he began active preaching, he has filled pastorates in Scotland and Australia, going after the war was over to his present position at Birmingham. The Carrs Lane church has an enviable reputation in England as a center of intellectual interest. Jowett, the famous Oxford philosopher, having been the pastor for many years...