Word: doggerels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel...
...Democratic Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts read to the Senate the following doggerel "which came to me through the mail from Iowa...