Word: limerick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a limerick which small boys used to repeat at least once a year...
...Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
...William Ford, storekeeper in the village of Drumcollogher, County Limerick, welcomed to the musty loft of his barn last week a crowd of eager Irish peasants who climbed up the single rickety ladder, sat down in rapt expectance of Drumcollogher's first cinema show, a drama called The Decoy...
Divorced. Charles ("Back-to-Nature") Garland, founder of the April Farm love-colony cult; by Mary Wrenn Garland, at Barnstable, Mass. Mr. Garland, famed refuser of a $1,800,000 legacy, once wrote a letter to his wife: "You probably remember the limerick about the young lady named Perkins, who pickled her internal workings with gherkins. Many, if not all, of those involved in the law, pickle their consciences therein. The fair face of justice must be sought elsewhere...
...born in County Cork to Senor Visian de Valera, a Spaniard, and the onetime Kate Coll of Limerick...