Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, he collected variations of the doggerel, some of them slightly ribald. Among the most proper...
...Monday after Thanksgiving, this sticky doggerel to the tune of Jingle, Bells will introduce TV viewers to the nation's first official Christmas stamp. The stamp is meant not only to encourage all Americans to spend 4;? in postage for their avalanche of Christmas cards (rather than the still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...
Dreaming up doggerel for a 1912 house organ called the B.V.D.ealer, an anonymous poet unwittingly set up one of the catchiest slogans in U.S. advertising: "Next to Myself I Like B.V.D. Best." The slogan, along with sturdy lines of men's underwear and saucy injunctions such as "Now, Now Cool Off-Get Your B.V.D.s On!", made B.V.D.* an American byword and a titan of the trade. But by World War II, overextension, inefficient mills and changed buying habits had shrunk the onetime giant. Now, under different ownership, B.V.D. is headed up again. Since 1957 its plants have quadrupled...
might write the kinds of doggerel...
...saying: "You don't know German? You are fortunate in your ignorance." He deplored Goethe. He even changed the name of the Prussian Academy to the Academic des Sciences et Belles-Lettres. Voltaire, before his increasing disrespect for authority led him to fall out with Frederick, wrote a doggerel tribute to him: All the morning the great king...