Word: limericist
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...from Gary Cooper movies and tailored to the needs of Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease and here it is, already gone, alas, alas...
...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...
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