Word: blynken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salanio, Salarino and Gratiano, ordinarily the Wynmen, Blynken and Nod of the Shakespearian first act, were as different as people really are and as alike as gentlemen's ideas are. Hugh Miller, Alfred Jingle in 'Pickwick", played a lively Gratiano to the giggling Nerissa of Spring Byington...
...Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe...
Said Wynken, Blynken...
None the less, Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...