Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mockery of the New York Yankees? And in the Washington Post, no less! Only two years ago, no sportswriter in Washington-or anywhere else-would have dared such doggerel about the Yankees, perennial overlords of the American League, winners of 29 pennants and 20 World Series. But last season the champion Yanks plummeted to sixth place, and rival teams started hooting that they ought to change their name to the Toledo Mud Hens. "Don't you believe it," growled General Man ager Ralph Houk. "We're not dead yet." He was right. The Yankees still had some dying...
...Homespun Doggerel. When his friend and predecessor as editor of the Post-Intelligencer sports page, Portus Baxter, retired back in 1920, Brougham made a point of visiting him regularly. He boosted Baxter's spirits by persuading the paper to pay him a small amount as a consultant. Baxter never forgot the favor. When he died 42 years later, he left Brougham a $300,000 estate that no one knew existed...
...Brougham. In his 56 years with the P.L, he has been more the kindly cheerleader than the captious critic. Easily the most popular sportswriter in the Northwest, he turns out homespun stories, and often winds up a column with what he calls a "pome," such as his piece of doggerel about a football recruiter: "He checks the young man's height and weight;/Can he kick and pass and run?/But here's the question the coach asks first:/'And how are your grades...
...necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things, outbursts of personal rage must have been no small social problem. The Ship of Fools, a 15th century compilation of doggerel homiletics by a German satirist named Sebastian Brant, warns that...
...bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills 20 volumes, his reputation was built on two short stories and 60 lines of doggerel, which Harte himself despised as "possibly the worst poem that anyone ever wrote...