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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes , he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Notable winners of the Hale Award include Robert Frost in 1956, Ogden Nash in 1964, Elizabeth Yates in 1970, Arthur Miller in 1990, and Julia Alvarez in 2017. [44] Hale was further honored as the fourth in a series of historical bobblehead dolls created by the New Hampshire Historical Society and sold in their museum store in Concord, New ...
Eberstadt is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a fashion photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Nash Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash.
One Touch of Venus is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the 1885 novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values, artistic fads and romantic and sexual mores.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a poem for children written by Ogden Nash. [1] A picture book of the 1936 poem with illustrations by Lynn M. Munsinger was published in 1995. [2] [3] The poem has been described as "probably his most famous poem for kids". [4]
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Navigating through a #MeToo reckoning, spinning out a new public company, and stepping in as CEO are once-in-a-lifetime events for most board chairs, but Sarah Nash managed to experience all three ...
The 9th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, also known as Ogden's Cavalry, was a Confederate unit in the American Civil War. The unit was commanded by Colonel Frederick Nash Ogden . [ 1 ] Although the unit was called a cavalry regiment, it was more properly classified as a mounted infantry unit.