Word: doggerel
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...perhaps we are appearing less commendatory than we feel. There is much to amuse; well-written verse and doggerel sometimes. We didn't see the story about the man who took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know...
Even the Mayor's office in the old Boston City Hall seems to be sighing for the days before Prohibition according to a "yellow doggerel" sent to the CRIMSON yesterday by Mr. Joseph Smith, assistant to Mayor Curley...
...There are three universities, Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity, but the greatest of these is Trinity." So say certain loyal Trinity men, and when their enthusiasm carries them even farther, they quote, albeit in doggerel Latin, a great scientist...
could sink to such doggerel...
...worth careful reading. "A Winter Ode," by H. W. Holmes, has no little beauty of description. But the Monthly has seldom--if ever--given twenty pages of space to a weaker effort than "The Tower of Silence; a Play," or published a poem more out-of-place than the doggerel verses, "On a Certain Retaining Wall...