Word: doggereleer
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...lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been privately amusing himself by writing doggerel. Last week Tucker gave out some samples...
...good sign. This country was raised on whisky. Anyone who can't stand to see a little whisky, there's something wrong with them." At week's end the Battle of the Bottle was still unresolved; while waiting for a decision Denver chanted a bit of doggerel supplied for the occasion by the Rocky Mountain News...
...story, told in doggerel verse against a background of music, makes hardly more sense as fantasy than as realism. Conceivably the doggerel expresses the rubbishy lives of the modern London sophisticates, while the hovering music symbolizes the lost world of poetry. But the actual effect is that of an oldtime, trashy silent movie, with the pianist dishing out lachrymose Tchaikovsky. Chatterton may have deserved a second life; this play about...
Before most newspapers gave up the chase as a waste of time, the newsmen paraphrased an old bit of doggerel...
...this inspired Reader "C.A.A." to try his hand at coining collectives-this time for clerics-and end the arguments on cats with doggerel. Wrote...