Word: doggereleer
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...husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie Sells His Acres is often far from doggerel. But it ranks higher as a novel than as a poem. In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with...
Sometimes he stoops to conquer rhymes in doggerel that only Tinpan Alley would applaud...
Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board told how the Government is trying to help young couples own their own homes without a direct cash loan. Jay N. ("Ding") Darling discussed the August farm strike in his own Iowa. Incongruously sprinkled in were bits of Ogden Nash's flighty doggerel. Readers could only conclude that, if Editor-in-Chief Smith was really responsible for the content and make-up of his New Outlook, he was still a better politician than an editor...
...Library of Congress), he would play on the violin, the organ or the piano. Then he would sing old college ballads, sentimental ditties or long songs for men only. His favorite stories were Elizabethan. He maintained active membership in the Royal & Joyous Fellowship of Elbow-benders. He doted on doggerel. Example...