Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...
When a general-or an admiral-gets up to make a speech, you never can tell what he may say. To 2,000 diners at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, welcoming the Admiral back home last week, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz lapsed into doggerel. The verses, he explained, about a sailor named Patsy McCoy, had been found by a Navy censor, going through the mail...
Without the interruption of an impish, hillbilly doggerel song (Round and Round Hitler's Grave) Triumph's unrelieved pounding at its worthy message (internationalism) sometimes takes on the sound of an hour-long lecture; and occasionally, with the best intentions in the world, it is mawkishly patronizing about the little people to whom it is addressed. Yet the best of Corwin is a kind of poetry, and is U.S. radio at its best...
...Cola burgeoned on the Port-of-Spain waterfront in 1943. Its composer was a stocky Negro calypso singer named Rupert Grant, known for professional purposes as "Lord Invader." For Rum & Coca-Cola he took a tune, with alterations, from a popular Trinidad paseo (two step), and dogged out some doggerel...
...Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription for an Old Well...