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The title appears in the poem "Hard Luck" in the book's first section. [2] It refers to a phrase popular in Harlem at the time, referring to citizens who would pawn fine clothes to predominantly Jewish-owned pawn shops when they were short on money. [3] The collection was Hughes' least successful in terms of both sales and critical reception. [4]
— Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist and caricaturist (20 May 1956), on being asked by his wife if he had had a good sleep "Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers." [12]: 25 [23] — Walter de la Mare, English author (22 June 1956), when asked if he wanted some fruit or flowers "75-Hotel. I'm going into the water." [271]
The Evening Standard described the book as being: "Gripping and written with keen understatement, it manages to be a domestic coming-of-age story even as it takes in the tumultuous sweep of the twentieth century.” A review in The Sunday Telegraph said: "Like money, clothes have real, symbolic and psychological value. Linda Grant understands ...
The term "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" was used by Australian soldiers during World War II to describe Papua New Guinean stretcher bearers.The term was not widely deemed to be problematic when it was used by Kipling and by British soldiers during the Sudan Campaign or by Australian soldiers in the 20th century; however, more recently some have deemed it to be a racial slur.
They are fuzzy beings who wash clothes on the banks of rivers on moonless nights. The specter of the Wagtail is often described as an old woman with white hair and dressed in black. There are also versions in which it is said that she acquires the form of a beautiful woman before men, but when men approach her, she turns into a monster and then ...
Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet or moleskin. Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat. Starting around the 14th century, the word referred originally to the roughness of woven cloth before it was ...
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction . Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication.
"Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair" - the formula explaining why the fuzzy wuzzies did so well was a clean, square root relationship, not a complex, "hairy" one. The strength of the forces scaled only linearly with the firepower of the British troops, but with the square of the numerically superior fuzzy wuzzy troops.