Word: gelett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gelett Burgess...
Died. (Frank) Gelett Burgess, 85, gently satirical humorist, author of more than 30 books of verse and essays; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif. He first won fame for his jingle about a purple cow, which so caught the nation's fancy that he wrote another quatrain threatening death to the next man who recited The Purple Cow in his presence.* For more than half a century he kept a large audience laughing with his poems, literary satires and essays which he illustrated himself (Are You a Bromide?; Look Eleven Years Younger) and his word definitions (Burgess Unabridged...