Word: limericking
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...Latest Ledger promotion stunt is a limerick contest...
Student backing has been flatter than a Lampoon limerick. Of every ten undergrade who get off the Huntington car at Mass. Ave. on Saturday night, nine of them don't go to the Symphony, and nine don't go to the local refrigerator, either...
...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...illustrated limerick contest. First prize: twelve bottles of "1929 Heidelbach-Icpleheimer"; second, $2.50; third, a "partnership in Speyer...
...limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...