Word: doggerel
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...Georg Furst of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Regiment. Herr Hitler first heard it at the Munich Hofbrauhaus, whose themesong it was. Bawled out by leather-lunged Bavarians while beer mugs banged the tables, the Badenweiler soon became a favorite of Fiihrer Hitler.* Later as a prop for such doggerel...
Convinced that she was the mystic woman of the Apocalypse, "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," she voiced and wrote reams of prophecies, some of them in doggerel. At 64 Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant, by the "Lamb," of a Messiah. Ten days after her child was due, she died, leaving her followers a box of writings which, she declared, should be opened in time of national crisis, in the presence of four-and-twenty bishops...
...political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...
...intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable book of lyrical doggerel...
...many harmonious morning stars. Arid for once, the burden of their song was praise: praise for Pushkin, Russia's No. 1 poet. To most U. S. readers, Pushkin is still only a funny name. Much of his poetry has been translated, but most of it reads like doggerel.* To that the all- Russian retort is: non-Russians will have to take Pushkin on faith, be satisfied with the Red-&-White assurance that Pushkin is indeed Russia's Poet. Last week the circumstantial evidence in Pushkin's favor was further bolstered up by a scholarly, 484-page biography...