Word: doggereleer
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...Again, Doggerel...
...read Mary Burchard Pryor's letter to you and before that I read the nun's canceling her subscription because of the doggerel you copied [TIME, Oct. 29; Nov. 5]. I liked Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's. The good Sister was too hasty. I'd say the poor little soul is overworked, and has to read while she's flying around doing a dozen other things, none of them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly...
Sister Mary Basil, 0. P., cancelled her subscription when TIME reprinted some doggerel which was typical of campaign slurs on Alfred E. Smith and the Roman Catholic Church...
...cannot condone in silence the reprinting on your letter page of a scurrilous anti-Catholic campaign verse, directly under a letter from a Catholic Sister who cancels her subscription in protest against your original printing of this doggerel. If the Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, I should wish TIME to print no shocking, versified allusion to the sacred "Beard of the Prophet...
...Buddhist and a Mohammedan, TIME would observe due reverence in mentioning the "Beard of the Prophet." But if hundreds of Buddhist verses ridiculing the "Beard" should appear, in such scurrilous myriads as to violently affect the campaign, then TIME would print a very few significant specimens of such doggerel...