Word: doggerel
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Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain...
...three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...
...Right. The jumbled doggerel is from the Garner campaign song, Cactus Jack, sounds like the work of a political dude rancher...
...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...
...fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...