Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green, wearer of flowing Windsor ties, announced that he would never again attend a White House function as long as the Hoovers were there. On the floor of the Senate, South Carolina's Senator Blease, coarsely harangued Mrs. Hoover, had the clerk read into the Congressional Record a vulgar doggerel, concluding...
...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...
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...read Mary Burchard Pryor's letter to you and before that I read the nun's canceling her subscription because of the doggerel you copied [TIME, Oct. 29; Nov. 5]. I liked Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's. The good Sister was too hasty. I'd say the poor little soul is overworked, and has to read while she's flying around doing a dozen other things, none of them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly...
Sister Mary Basil, 0. P., cancelled her subscription when TIME reprinted some doggerel which was typical of campaign slurs on Alfred E. Smith and the Roman Catholic Church...