Word: limerick
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Whether or no the limerick is to be Gased among the accepted forms of verse it seem of appeal ot at least a spirt of the reading public as is indicated by the republication of Florence H. Garliner's "The smiile on the Face of the Tiger under the new title of "Limstricks...
...best limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half...
...Stebbins, J. L. '12. c. June 20, "Oscar II." d. Copenhagen. e. Copenhagen, July 2-6; Cork, July 10-12; Limerick, July...
...picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis...
Earl Cowper, the lord lieutenant, in receiving a deputation of the corporation of Limerick Thursday, said he trusted shortly to be able to liberate the last of the suspects...