Word: limerick
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...Richard Inglis Jr. '33 defeated E. O. Merchant (A) 6-1, 6-2; G. H. Hartford '34 defeated R. S. Clifton (A) 2-6, 8-6, 6-4; W. E. Arensberg '33 defeated P. B. Lyster (A) 6-3, 6-3; J. F. Ray '34 defeated S. C. Limerick (A) 6-0, 7-5; and F. W. Jones, Jr. '35 defeated J. A. Shields...
...doubles Arensberg and Inglis defeated Merchant and Owen 6-2, 6-3; F. P. Whitbeck '35 and J. K. Mitchell '34 defeated Lyster and Limerick 7-9, 6-8, 6-4; and Jones and Wilkinson (A) defeated Shields and Clifton...
...battled mightily to keep his dominion on the gold standard. All other dominions and the Mother Country are off. Ever since sterling slipped, English economists have been favoring South Africa with advice and appeals to "link your pound with sterling." Because Premier Hertzog is Dutch-blooded, Englishmen started a limerick in London which has spread to Capetown...
...very respectable Limerick about the consternation of the young lady from Back Bay who once threw a Transcript away expresses it exactly. The Boston Evening Transcript is a landmark and an institution, and as such not to be defiled. Its pages, which come from the press smelling more strongly of printers' ink than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly...
...Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following: "So you and your father know everything? Well, what's the capital...