Word: limericking
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...calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned the merits of his horse's ancestry more seriously than ever before, and even the judgment of his jockey, the famed Tommy Cullinan of County Limerick, son of a sporting farmer, famed for his clever finishes and for leading with Billy Barton at the last fence in 1928. But Tommy Cullinan was moving up the straightaway with Shaun Goilin, and in the final sprint he passed Sir Lindsay, raced Melleray's Belle neck and neck...
...Famed Limerick...
...Limerick, where the River Shannon flows under O'Brien's Bridge. President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week opened a sluice. The Bishop of Killaloe was there to bless the sluice, to murmur a Latin benediction. Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home...
...Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
...these slogans help the Democrats unhorse the Republicans in 1928? The slogan committee of the Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, D. C.), hoped so. They were announced last week as the best of 800 slogans the committee obtained in its nationwide slogan-motto-jingle-limerick-rhyme con-contest (TIME, Sept. 26). The committee paid $100, $50 and $25 for the above prizewinners, as promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Two of the other slogans submitted were issued for publication. One from Washington said...