Word: limerick
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...LURE OF THE LIMERICK by William S. Baring-Gould. 246 pages. Potter...
Many people despise the limerick, an equally strict art form, but it survives because it is easily remembered. Until recently, limericks were mostly unprintable and constituted one of the few forms of modern oral literature...
...with temperatures soaring to nearly 70° as Jacqueline Kennedy, 37, arrived at Shannon Airport with Caroline, 9, and John-John, 6, for a six-week vacation in "this land my husband loved so much." First came an 80-mile ride by chartered bus past waving onlookers in Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, before the Kennedys settled in at Woodstown House, a 40-room Regency mansion on the southeast coast overlooking a huge, secluded beach. To keep the holiday private, there is a roving band of 200 policemen, 30 armed detectives and two tag-along FBI agents. Most Irish newspapers echoed...
...laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind...
...Senate as the new bill was passed last week to see how variegated the U.S. is. In the presiding officer's chair sat Hubert Humphrey, son of a Norwegian mother. Much in evidence were Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, whose parents hailed from counties Kilkenny and Limerick, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, son of Germans. In the semicircular rows that arced to the rear of the chamber sat New York's Jack Javits, son of an Austrian and a Palestinian; Hawaii's Hiram Fong, whose parents were born in China; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff, son of Poles...