Word: limericking
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Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air. Revived by Viscount Adare, perhaps as a publicity gag for wife Nancy's holiday inn at Adare,† the stagecoach carries 25 passengers, will make three de luxe trips each week...
Caution. In New Limerick, Me., a 102-year-old pipe-smoker swore off for his health's sake, took up chewing...
...have peacefully dug into their country's prehistory. In 1934 some 30 excavation projects were set going by the Irish Government, to make work for laborers as well as to illuminate Eire's antiquity. Last week, with the 1940 season wound up at Lough Gur in County Limerick, word came from there that a continuous chain of human habitations had been traced back-through the Norman and Viking invasions, through the Bronze Age to the Stone Age-to the oldest known village site in Eire. It was dated...
...National, the international military jumping events always get top billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...
Marine Corps humor is also traditional, and the items fit for print are oddly in the Punch tradition, generally told with an air of we-were-gathered-over-the-cigars-and-claret. Once the Corps adopts a joke or limerick, its form is rarely changed, hangs on through generations. Typical toast...