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...Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription for an Old Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors of Verse | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...usual, immortalized an assortment of recipes and doggerel in the Congressional Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventory | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...White Cliffs of Dover (M.G.M.) is an exquisite cinematic equivalent of the late Alice Duer Miller's best-selling poem of that title - which, for all its sincerity, can be most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...fighting ability of the U.S. Marines is never questioned. But sometimes soldiers and sailors are irked by the signs of conscious superiority inherent in every Marine. In Gismo (meaning "gadget"), a publication for all servicemen in the South Pacific, this pent-up irritation was let out in doggerel "believed to be by a sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES,PERSONNEL: Those Brass-Button Queens | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Joan Blondell, bouncy cinemarmful whose eight-year-old marriage to Crooner Dick Powell (her second) has been one of Hollywood's most sunnily publicized unions, announced that she would sue for divorce, reissued the dated doggerel she had indited after her first divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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