Word: doggereleer
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...other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair-mounting scene called Sapolio. Gelett Burgess wrote a doggerel...
...decade and a half ago the instructors of snobbish St. George's School were periodically awed by examination papers dashed off in blank verse by a student named Ogden Nash. Few years later Manhattan admen chortled over bits of doggerel, rhymed only by weird feats of spelling, which cluttered the advertising offices of Barron Collier. Ogden Nash, after one year at Harvard, one year of teaching; and two years of painful attempts to sell bonds, was struggling over Collier car-card copy, setting down, meanwhile, the verses which popped into his wandering mind. While working for Collier, Rhymester Nash...
Nash's fluttery doggerel is as American as a Mississippi drawl and as tempting to imitate. Last week reviewers were tempted to another outburst of meterless, rhyme-twisting verse by the appearance of Nash's fifth book of poems, The Primrose Path. In that outburst they were led by Critic John Chamberlain of the New York Times, who turned out a whole re-view in Nashiana. Excerpts...
...Nazis converged on Nuremberg, more than doubling the old city's population, some chanted a snatch of Ger man doggerel to the effect that "Since Father joined the Party and Mother joined the Franenschajt [Nazi women's league] and Sister joined the Mädelbund [Nazi Maidens] and Brother joined the Storm Troops, we are met once a year at the Party Congress...
...hard to be "regular." His professors remember him as a student with a photographic mind who learned everything 100% right the first time. Prodigy Hardy has traveled abroad almost every summer since childhood. He can discuss theology in 17 languages. Scholarly friends treasure his letters in Latin, filled with doggerel and idiomatic anecdote. But most of his intimates have been non-scholars who at first did not know or care about his prodigiousness, later liked him in spite of it. He automatically corrects conversational misstatements, but so diffidently that no one minds. Unlike most prodigies. "Ed" Hardy does not bemoan...