Word: limerickization
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Quite unabashed, the New York Evening Journal (Hearst) pounced upon the Limerick Contest. Before the Graphic had its new contest under way, the Journal had already begun a Limerick Contest with prizes...
This paper was not surprised yesterday when its Limerick Contest idea was pounced upon with desperate rapidity by the direct descendants of Ali Baba and his forty thieves on the New York Journal...
...Langford Reed is one of the modern wonders of the world. After plowing through sixteen thousand limericks in preparing his forthcoming book, "The Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly...
...over 50 answers submitted in the Freshman Limerick Competition, the last two lines above have been judged the best. The first prize of two tickets to the undergraduate performance on Friday night was mailed last, night to their author, Shiras Morris Jr. '27 of Hartford, Conn. The second prize of one ticket was awarded to James Richard Bunker '27 of South Bend, Ind., for the following last lines...
...lines that best complete this limerick will win a first prize of two free tickets to the show on April 10. The second prize will be one ticket. All answers must be submitted before midnight, April 4, to the Contest Committee, Hasty Pudding club, Holyoke St. Anyone may submit as many legible answers as he wishes and the result will be published in the CRIMSON of April...