With the publication of his first collection, Hard Lines (1931), he began a 40-year career during which he produced 20 volumes of verse with such titles as The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (1936), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), and Everyone but Thee and Me (1962).
The summer of 1972 was exceptionally hot, and his nap fell at the hottest time of the day, but it wasn't too bad in the garden.
"Long on equities?", your neighbours sneer, as if you had a bad case of garden gnomes.Most people can name no more than three hedge funds: Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), which was bailed out in 1998, and George Soros's Quantum and Julian Robertson's Tiger funds (wound down and closed, respectively, because of their rotten returns).
Deadpool fans wondered why the garrulous antihero known as "the Merc with a Mouth" had become just another common-or-garden bad guy, his core personality entirely removed when film-makers chose to sew his lips shut.
In our game, we have either a Toyota (bad) or a rock garden (worse) serving as a not-so-subtle reminder that this patch of greenery is a football field but once a year.
Everywhere you look in the present there are stinking slums, bad clothes, ruined public gardens and architecturally misshapen concrete mosques.
By contrast 60 years on from the FA's first attempts to whittle out some kind of post street-football form of coaching and playing, the only coherent methodology English game has produced is the garden-shed bad science of direct football, a movement that, in Brian Glanville's words, "poisoned the wells for a generation".
This week's Animal Oddity is all about gardens and bad breath.
On TV shows like Without A Trace, The Closer and CSI, a male psychologist or psychiatrist is as likely to be the bad guy as any garden-variety contract killer or spurned lover.
The cast received positive comment from Variety magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert, but a critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune said the film was "so stupidly plotted and badly acted, it becomes unintentionally funny", and described Strickland and her co-stars' work as "garden-variety bad".
