Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Verily, -verily quoth I to myself as I flipped the pages (354) of The Primrose Path (Simon and Schuster, $2.50), by Ogden Nash. This once exceedingly merry fellow has busted out with more antipathies than the face of a man with the measles has of the rash...
...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...
Delighted friends made him send it to The New Yorker, which snapped it up, asked for more & more & more. Today Poet Nash gets big money from the nickel weeklies and mass monthlies...
...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...
...piece steel body, super-hydraulic brakes and ball-bearing steering are the new features of the Nash. By accentuating the slope in front and rear, the makers have produced a very streamlined car, indeed...