Word: limericking
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...nearly two decades the Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit has been Most Rev. Michael James Gallagher. Born in Auburn, Mich, of Irish parents, "Mike" Gallagher was educated for the priesthood in Limerick, Ireland and Innsbruck, Austria. In the years following the War, Detroit's shepherd organized no new parishes, gave the University of Detroit a new 96-acre campus and plant, raised $9,000,000 for Sacred Heart Seminary, invited a dozen new religious communities to live and work among Detroit's 600,000 Catholics. Yet the total of all these worthy deeds has brought the white-thatched...
...Marshall, Ark., at the first two lines of a limerick Emmett Slay chuckled. At the next two he snickered. At the last one he roared boisterously, slapped his hip, discharged a pistol in his pocket, shot a friend in the thigh...
...Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course, Sculptor Jacob ("Ep") Epstein, creator of primordial monuments in London. - ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 4 under Business & Finance, you say, "James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler...
...massaging the nerve centre in the small of the back, by directing Publisher Murphy to lie for a period each day flat on the floor with his hand under the small of his back. - ED. Ed for Ep Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details referring to famed Jacob Epstein? If so, a large demerit for wanton perversion of the facts. ALLEN WELLER Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Sirs...
Plain readers, who usually move up above street-level to do their book-reading, after reading Alice B. Toklas will find their faith in the limerick verdict sadly shaken, may begin to understand why Gertrude Stein's importance as a writer has received so many reiterated testimonials from writers of accredited sanity...