Word: limericking
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Dixon Merritt, skinny, big-beaked Tennessee newsman who in 1909 hatched the famed but limping pelican limerick,* couldn't stop friends from improving the occasion of his retirement as REA press-agent with the revelation of his own (fit-to-print but still limping) favorite...
When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
...pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year-old discoverer of McCormack...
...dubbed the Irish Haw-Haw. Last December John came back to Eire by Nazi parachute, was seized by the De Valera Government, clapped in a Dublin prison. A fortnight ago John escaped, hopped a train from the capital, grubbed sympathy and sandwiches from fellow passengers, got off at Limerick, beat his way through forest & field to his father's home...
Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing...