Word: limericking
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Years ago, in the old Savile Club in London, I heard the late Poet Laureate Dr. Bridges quote your limerick [TIME, March 27, April 24] in what seems a more perfect form -as a spoof on Berkeley, which of course...
...radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid account of a revolution in London, complete with Big Ben Tower blown up, the National Gallery ablaze. Famed at Oxford is "Ronnie" Knox's reply to a fellow-undergraduate who wrote the Hegelian limerick...
With Cincinnati as their model, several American cities have already adopted the city managership. In each case it has meant increased service for the citizens; particularly it has lowered tax rates. In the green land of Eire cities like Dublin, Cork, and Limerick have profited by this form of government. With everything in its favor, Cambridge voters should give careful, consideration to the referendum which now, by the grace of the Plan E Committee, will be placed upon the November ballot. They should see that a city manager is a better way of getting more for their money...
This week's winning limerick was submitted by the "Harvard Lampoon," Inc. The one dollar award will be held in the CRIMSON Business Office until a member of the Lampoon comes to claim...
...names of the authors will not be printed union specifically requested. There must be no bitterness no matter how cleverly put, in the limerick. Farfetched rhymes which add to the humor, and especially two-word rhymes or use of an extra-hard word will be given especial credit. PRIZE - WINNING LIMERICK...