Word: limericks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue coach Jim Tupenny as having said incredibly slanderous things about McCurdy's squad Beneath it was an interview with Tupenny. allegedly staged by McCurdy. in which the Penn coach needled the Crimson harriers individually. And off to the left was a large white placard with a limerick on it. attesting to Penn's hubris, and the inevitable punishment which Harvard would wreak upon...
...little Victorian children by the avuncular Establishment. His characters, like the "Old Person of Cadiz" or "Young Lady of Clare," are rarely righteous, and when they do practice virtue, it often goes refreshingly unrewarded. One thing this age will never really understand about Lear: his penchant for the nonporno limerick...
...your review of "The Lure of the Limerick" [Sept. 22], I was aghast to read that "limericks have never been a popular art form with women." May I comment...
...Remember. More than 50 years ago, writes Baring-Gould, the Princeton Tiger published a publishable limerick that went...
Baring-Gould, who was a promotion writer at Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...