Word: limericks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems true, as you say, that most people will never understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick quoted in the Einstein article [TIME, July 1]. It is not true, however, that the author will refrain from turning over in his grave should you continue to misquote...
Hence the pathetic paradox that Einstein's discoveries, the greatest triumph of reasoning mind on record, are accepted by most people on faith. Hence the fact that most people never expect to understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick...
...never said that the Albino limerick [TIME, March 4] is or ever was my favorite. I only said that it is a better limerick than the Pelican-which isn't saying much. I never esteemed either of them. But, having been pursued by the darned bird for 40 years as Mr. Coleridge's old sailor was by the albatross, I am certainly entitled to have it and the other one appear no worse than they are. And your version of the Albino appears worse than anything I have seen-which is saying a great deal. It really goes...
Dixon Merritt, skinny, big-beaked Tennessee newsman who in 1909 hatched the famed but limping pelican limerick,* couldn't stop friends from improving the occasion of his retirement as REA press-agent with the revelation of his own (fit-to-print but still limping) favorite...
...pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year-old discoverer of McCormack...