Word: doggereleer
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...Poetica. In The Bronx, Alan Siegel, summoned for smoking in a subway, defended himself in eight stanzas of wretched doggerel, got punishment to fit both crimes. The magistrate's decision: "Your poem is fine, it's quite a line. Next time heed 'No Smoking' sign. The verdict is $2 fine...
...bitterly. Pravda recently printed a cartoon showing the silver-haired elder statesman gardening among the atoms (see cut). The words on the sign at left ("Made in U.S.A.") are understandable to all Russians, so familiar have they become on Lend-Lease supplies. Under the cartoon were 20 lines of doggerel. Sample verse...
...London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...reason is, as Carl Sandburg suggests in a preface to this book, that Lincoln had a wide variety of styles-a greater range than any other U.S. statesman or orator. He wrote gravely and inspiringly at times, colloquially and waggishly at others. Now & then, he even broke out into doggerel. Sample (from something called The Bear Hunt...
...Progress. The sly dog who wrote this smooth doggerel says of himself: "I live a hideous life, and very often shave after lunch. I have four children and one wife. The fourth (a manchild) is extraordinarily handsome and good. All the other children are female and very high-minded...