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...being present: Professor and Mrs. J. H. Beale, Professor and Mrs. F. H. Bohlen, Professor and Mrs. Zechariah Chafee. Professor and Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Professor and Mrs. N. W. Frad, Professor and Mrs. E. B. Hill, Dean and Mrs. H. W. Holmes. Professor and Mrs. C. H. Langford, Professor and Mrs. Arthur Pope, Professor and Mrs. D. A. Prescott, Professor and Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Professor and Mrs. W. R. Spaulding and Professor and Mrs. W. B. Wooster...
...COMPLETE LIMERICK BOOK- Langford Reed-Putnam ($2.50). In a 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...
...Langford Reed is one of the modern wonders of the world. After plowing through sixteen thousand limericks in preparing his forthcoming book, "The Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly...
Still, in the face of almost insuperable obstacles, Langford Reed seems to have produced a book. As he must be laboring under many difficulties in planning the second volume, it might not be out of place to mention for his benefit the other innocuous verse, the one about the young fellow named Young, who once when his nerves were unstrung, put his mother, unseen in the sausage machine, and canned her and labelled her "Tongue...
...Newark on Sept. 11. Wills: "I see that Firpo is bubbling over with confidence. Why pick poor little Harry out as one of his soft victims ? He hasn't broken any man's ribs or jaw around here, has he? Say, I fought little old man Sam Langford* 22 times. I forgot to duck on only two occasions in all that time. I admit I didn't know what hit me or how I fell. . . . Let me tell you that Sam Langford hit harder by accident than most heavyweights hit on purpose. There never lived a hitter...