Word: doggereleer
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Such boondock minstrelsy (and other more ill-humored doggerel) summed up the feeling of many World War II marines for the U.S. Army's ranking officer in the Pacific. But by last week it was different. The word out of Korea and out of Washington was that MacArthur and the marines were now old buddies. MacArthur had been heard to say that there are no finer troops on earth than the marines, and was giving all his support to the Marines' air arm, which a year ago, in the integration fight, was battling for its life...
Hidden Ash Barrels. This bracing breath of New England air, wafted into the sedate shadows of a Wall Street law firm, set one of the senior partners to writing a reply in doggerel, the kind of doggerel that a senior partner would be expected to write. A Statler publicity man reacted as a member of his species should, installed the Yankee innkeeper grandly in the Statler's most expensive suite when he came down to New York for a television appearance. Innkeeper Hill didn't seem to be completely taken in by all this attention...
...this querulous doggerel, a disgruntled voter in the Hartford Courant last week recorded her opinion of the noisiest off-year campaign in Connecticut history. Benton & Bowles, formerly of the advertising firm of the same name, were Governor Chester Bowles and William Benton, whom he had appointed to the U.S. Senate. Chester Bowles, a man whose left of Truman policies inspire a little of the same devotion in his supporters and rage in his opponents that Franklin D. Roosevelt did, wanted to be governor for four more years. Benton, trying to keep his Senate seat (which he has held...
Herewith my five-year-old daughter's provincial New England version of TIME'S [May 29] Betty Grable jump-rope doggerel...
...junior year Eliot decided that he was too puny, took boxing lessons, once proudly sported a luminous shiner. He also delighted his classmates* by writing risque doggerel about a mythical King Bolo and his Queen ("that airy fairy hairy-'un, / Who led the dance on Golder's Green / With Cardinal Bessarion"). In addition to chronicling the doings of King Bolo, he contributed romantic verse to the Harvard Advocate. After Harvard, Eliot went to study in Paris for a year ("on the old man's money"), and in a Left Bank flat wrote his first significant poem...