Word: doggereleer
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...reported that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be buried in the same grave, but the authorities dared not flout Shakespeare's doggerel epitaph...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Tom Clark said the court was in effect telling the railroads they must first go to the unions before abolishing surplus jobs. "Everyone knows what the answer will be," complained Clark, and quoted some homey doggerel to make his point. "It is like the suitor who, when proposing to a young lady, was told by her to go to father...
...Poet Eliot suggested that he was "trying to build a Catholic platform out of Protestant planks." He was a man perhaps defined only by his enemies. In the end, if he could not say himself precisely what he was trying to say, he did once quote a bit of doggerel that seemed...
...years since Roger Casement was hanged in England's Pentonville Prison and laid away in a grave of quicklime, successive British governments have been haunted by Yeats's doggerel...
...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...