Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other record breakers: Chrysler Corp. (up an estimated 40% over 1940), Studebaker (30,298, up 35%), Nash...
...FACE is FAMILIAR-Oqden Nash Little, Brown...
...ever and whenever democracy really goes to town, laughter that betrays nobody and expresses all will be a commonplace accomplishment. Fore-echoes of such laughter can occasionally be heard in the light verse of Thomas Temple Hoyne (TIME, Jan. 1, 1940), David McCord and Ogden Nash...
...latter two McCord is the more substantially humorous, because he does not, so much as Nash does, get funny with his own first-person. McCord is a Harvardman, a scout for a Manhattan publisher, a quadruple club man-and he writes as such. His social prerogatives as a gentleman and scholar are great. In much of his verse he is not above writing like a dandy in a Conning Tower. At his plenary best -in Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly...
More juice, by my porringer, and or anger! There are few creatures on earth more manly than the diapered hero of McCord's Perambulator Poems. Ogden Nash writes: The interest I take in my neighbor's nursery Would have to grow, to be even cursory, And I would that performing sons and nephews Were carted away with the daily refuse...