Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew ahead of him to North Africa and Sicily, growing larger as it went. Like most legends, it represents measurable qualities in a kind of mystical blend. Hope was funny, treating hordes of soldiers to roars of laughter. He was friendly-ate with servicemen, drank with them, read their doggerel, listened to their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that in foreign parts called up its image. Hence boys whom Hope might...
This sentimental doggerel was published by Pravda as an inspiration to the Red Army, which with the smell of victory in its nostrils, last week was driving through the army which only three years ago was the smartest in the world...
This anonymous doggerel is a cry of honest frustration to many an officer snarled in the modern army's endless red tape. One such officer is Lieut. Colonel Francis E. Gillette, instructor in the Army's Command & General Staff School (Fort Leavenworth). Writing in the current issue of the erudite C. & G. S. Military Review, Colonel Gillette quotes the verse and mourns: "General Marshall and General McNair, among others, have issued warnings that paper work should not be allowed to interfere with training. But . . . like the weather, everybody talks about it . . . no one does anything about...
Announced with seeming certainty, after numerous false starts, was onetime Trouper Marlene Dietrich's return to the stage to star in a new Broadway musicomedy. Hard at work on the lyrics for the show was Doge of Doggerel Ogden Nash...
...many voices already raised against the voice-vexing Star-Spangled Banner, Columnist Westbroolc Pegler added his vexed voice. He found the music generally unsingable, the lyrics "stilted . . . pompous . . . episodic doggerel," the whole business "simply out of the question." Proposed Pegler as a substitute: "the Maine Stein Song (Rudy Vallee's onetime plug) . . . a thumping, rousing, really musical piece done within the range of the normal, or barbershop, voice...