Word: nash
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nash couplet was just the thing for a dull day to let a little pizzazz...
...Most poets toiled as an iambler, But few as smooth as this Nash rambler...
...tribute to Ogden Nash's verse Requires a little life portrait of the man - what Time editors call bio-perse. Nash was the maternal grandson of a noted Louisville, Ky., feminist Who educated his own daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August...
...gawker, But I also read the magazines that came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash was the one who in my little reliquary acquired patron-saintance. Soon my Nashophilia had so far ripened That I plopped down 35 cents of my hard-begged weekly stipend And bought "The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash," for its was worth all that money To possess a collection of Nash...
...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...