Word: limericks
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...morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses on the sand. To the men who had drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried...
There is a limerick which small boys used to repeat at least once a year...
...Republican National Chairman paraphrases this limerick at least once every four years, substituting "March" for "July" in the last line. The first line contains the first charge of his chairmanship. If the Republican elephant is to jump the fence, there must be moneys. So well is this known now by good Republicans that the financial duties of the National Treasurer have become almost automatic. All Mr. Butler has to do is indicate the amounts that seem necessary and his committeemen do the asking-papa part...
...Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
...William Ford, storekeeper in the village of Drumcollogher, County Limerick, welcomed to the musty loft of his barn last week a crowd of eager Irish peasants who climbed up the single rickety ladder, sat down in rapt expectance of Drumcollogher's first cinema show, a drama called The Decoy...