Word: limericks
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...lines that best complete this limerick will win the Hasty Pudding Freshman Contest, according to an announcement made last night. The contest is open only to the class of 1927 and the first prize consists of two free tickets for the undergraduate performance on April 10. For the second best lines submitted, one ticket will be given free for the same performance. All answers must be submitted before midnight, April 4, to the Contest Committee, Hasty Pudding Club, Holyoke St. Anyone may offer as many answers as he wishes but they must be legible. The winning limerick will be published...
Unappreciant of news value, the three Princetonians did not realize that a limerick from the lips of an ex-President is as rare as a cowslip from Mars. They allowed their fellow-students and the world at large to live on, unillumined by those historically unequaled verses. They were guilty of poor journalism...
...Valera quickly recovered from the shock he had received and was removed to Limerick jail and later to Dublin. At all times he was heavily guarded...
...Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Republican Army was wounded seriously by Free State troops near Newcastle, County Limerick. He died a few hours later. Thus ends the life of one of the most powerful Republican leaders...
...Irish Free State. Like the treaty between England and Sinn Fein this settlement was signed quite suddenly at a crisis of Irish affairs. Since the speeches of Collins and De Valera, in a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series, early in March, conditions have grown steadily worse, particularly in Limerick and about Belfast, until finally they assumed almost the dimensions of a reign of terror, during which the Extremists and the Ulsterites rapidly extended their influence at the expense of the Dail Eireann forces...