Word: doggerel
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...first plays Larry, a reminiscing tailor, then the grandfather that Larry reminisces about. Grandpa was murdered by his wife's lover, then the lover was murdered, then grandpa came briskly back to life, then his wife fell down dead, then he married a gay widow. Written mostly in doggerel, Happy As Larry deals mostly with sex. There are also snatches of nice music, and Marguerite Piazza is fun as the widow. Actor Meredith would have more charm if he tried for less...
...blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...
Russell Janney is an old and successful hand at reducing religious feeling to bathos ; his slushy novel, The Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), sold 750,000 copies. His doggerel Vision of Red O'Shea may not do as well, but it has a distinction of its own: not since Edgar Guest lit his Harbor Lights of Home and Robert Service thumped through Songs of a Sourdough has a versifier shown such loving absorption in platitude and meticulous attention to clich...
...would have to stay there for long. Early last week the dunce cap was off and he was back again, this time as Chancellor of The Duchy of Lancaster.* He had talked himself back just as effectively as he had talked himself out-or, as London's doggerel-of-the-week...
...Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature Boy's lyrics, also by Ahbez, were a cut above the usual Tin Pan Alley doggerel...