Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book. Included in it are quotations from men as varied as Churchill, De Gaulle, Lincoln, Asoka (early apostle of Buddhism), Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Will Rogers, as well as some stray doggerel that happens to appeal...
...reported that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be buried in the same grave, but the authorities dared not flout Shakespeare's doggerel epitaph...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Tom Clark said the court was in effect telling the railroads they must first go to the unions before abolishing surplus jobs. "Everyone knows what the answer will be," complained Clark, and quoted some homey doggerel to make his point. "It is like the suitor who, when proposing to a young lady, was told by her to go to father...
...Poet Eliot suggested that he was "trying to build a Catholic platform out of Protestant planks." He was a man perhaps defined only by his enemies. In the end, if he could not say himself precisely what he was trying to say, he did once quote a bit of doggerel that seemed...