Word: coupleteer
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...Bushnell didn't write the couplet or quatrain though it floated around under his aegis for a long time. But he sent it to Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones of Yale, and Jones wrote a reply which undertook to tell a cockeyed world the kind of town New Haven was or is. ... This is what Dean Jones wrote...
Sirs: ... I want also to point out the invasion of Brooklynese (is that the correct idiom?) into the Hungarian translation of (the couplet "returning you-joining you" from Gloomy Sunday [TIME, March 30]. I wonder that you didn't comment on it. HUBERT CREEKMORE Jackson, Miss...
TIME failed to characterize the rhyming of "joining" and "returning" as Brooklynese because to do so would be incorrect. Any Brooklynite who pronounces "joining"' as "jerning," must of necessity pronounce "returning" as "retoining." In no dialect that TIME can discover would that particular couplet of Gloomy Sunday rhyme...
...gallery refused. Next morning the story flamed all over the front pages of Manhattan, and crowds were blocking the sidewalk before Braun & Co. The rest is history. Reproductions of September Morn burgeoned on calendars, candy boxes, cigars, suspenders, post cards. An anonymous couplet swept the land: Please do not think I'm bad or bold, But where it's deep it's awful cold. And whenever the excitement seemed likely to die out there were always rival Comstocks in provincial cities ready to blast the picture all over again...
...Harvard University graduates a Robert Treat Paine. The quinquennial catalogue lists seven: in 1749, 1779, 1822, 1855, 1882, 1888, 1922. First and most famed was Robert Treat Paine who signed the Declaration of Independence. His son and namesake became a poet. From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians...