Word: limericks
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Divorced. Charles ("Back-to-Nature") Garland, founder of the April Farm love-colony cult; by Mary Wrenn Garland, at Barnstable, Mass. Mr. Garland, famed refuser of a $1,800,000 legacy, once wrote a letter to his wife: "You probably remember the limerick about the young lady named Perkins, who pickled her internal workings with gherkins. Many, if not all, of those involved in the law, pickle their consciences therein. The fair face of justice must be sought elsewhere...
...born in County Cork to Senor Visian de Valera, a Spaniard, and the onetime Kate Coll of Limerick...
...domestic nature, editorials couched in simple sentences and expressing the precepts of simpletons, and, above all, pictures illustrating stories of comprehensible disgrace or honor. It finds equal and not different attraction in moral turpitude and mundano triumph; on the one hand, robberv murder, and divorce; on the other, limerick contests, daring rescues, and political coups...
Miss Jane Hamilton Brady of Gladstone, N. J., granddaughter of the Countess of Limerick; Miss Ursula Corning of Litchfield, Conn., daughter of H. J. Corning, Professor of Medicine in the University of Basle, Switzerland; Mrs. Howell H. Howard of Dayton, Ohio; Miss Irene Jamieson, Spokane, Wash., Oxford student; Mrs. Archibald H. Rowan, Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.; Miss Laura Thompson, Lake Forest, Ill..; Mrs. Alexander Tuck of Maryland and Mrs. Wallace Payne Moats of Mexico City...
...COMPLETE LIMERICK BOOK- Langford Reed-Putnam ($2.50). In a spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended...