Word: doggerel
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Lady Houston's dictatorship over her publishing property had been nonetheless complete for all that it was usually exercised in absentia. Fond of staying on her yacht Liberty, once the property of Joseph Pulitzer, Lady Houston used its cabin as a writing room in which to compose the doggerel which she often employed politically,* or to coin such phrases for Captain Eden as "That nancyfied nonentity in the Foreign Office." Another Houston dislike was for Sir Samuel Hoare, whose visit to France caused her to headline an article, "Why Send Hoares to Paris...
...much, the impromptu doggerel of Merrythought, teasing Mistress Merrythought, when, having deserted him, she would come home again...
...Stage Struck" has reached the second half of a University double bill so early in its career. It just hasn't got anything--Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and the dewy-eyed heroine not excepted. The dance numbers are too fragmntary to deserve criticism. The songs are doggerel. The conventional comedy quartet is so bad it has to resort to camera tricks. But Frank McHugh comes through with one good gag, and there is some bedroom slapsticking worth watching
Victorian Jewel Box. Meanwhile his 500,000,000 subjects can ruffle the pages of English history and survey their previous King Edwards. Too late came Edward VII to be included in that magnificent and useful doggerel The History of England in Rhyme which so many sturdy Victorians still know by heart. In some 400 lines of galloping and definitely learnable verse it equips an Englishman with the history of his country from "great Julius Caesar, B. C. fifty-five." Gems from this Victorian jewel box apropos the long dead Edwards...
Returning to India, the young Kipling, as he rhymed, "sold his heart to the old Black Art we call the daily press." To his last hour he remained the direct, incisive, fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...