10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSEY-HOUSEY»
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Housey-Housey weir ai ? ? [There was a question about the game of Bingo.] Well
, yes, l played it quite a lot H f f D: eo eo when l was in the army, and we — we
preferred to call it "Housey-Housey," or AOU tf rf ai ai 48 crutches, because two
7s ...
2
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the ...
Various card games were also popular amongst officers, but the two most
prominent games played by the ordinary ranks were 'Housey Housey' and '
Crown and Anchor' (Clapson 1992: 95). Private J. Beard described the ubiquity of
these ...
4. Housey-Housey. Three winters had passed since we first stood by the swaying
grasses at the site of our future home, and we were still 'living above the shop'.
The bungalow was still incomplete, but considerable progress had been made.
4
Not Just Beer and Bingo! a Social History of Working Men's Clubs
21 Eyes Down, Look In! What about the threat of something more internal—
tombola, 'housey-housey', (housey-housey was what a player might shout when
they marked off all 15 numbers on a single ticket and had a 'full house') or bingo
as it ...
5
Oxford Dictionary of English
housey-housey. 7 [mass noun] Brit. old-fashioned term for BINGO. 2[as
exclamation] used by a bingo player to announce that they have won. 7adjective [
attrib.] 1 (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings. 2
relating to a ...
6
Mathematical Enculturation: A Cultural Perspective on ...
The successes, or otherwise, in predicting events can be well explored through
astrological charts, bingo games (housey-housey), fruit machines and the like.
Predicting generalisations can be significant also, whether in numerical
situations ...
HOUSEY-HOUSEY is an Old Army Custom. It is done by numbers, and is not at
all like Crown & Anchor where players often finish up in the Glass Housey
Housey. THE FLORAL DANCE is danced in the altogether to the sound of the
fiddle, ...
8
Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television
Ominously, when 'Housey Housey', the programme's next big competition, began
on Monday 23 May, the game cards distributed to viewers so they could play
along at home had pictures of Mark Little and Gaby Roslin on the front but no
sign ...
9
Sociology of Leisure: A Reader
At these clubs women are admitted for the housey, housey sessions on Saturday
and Sunday evenings, and Sunday midday in just the same was as they are
admitted at the others for the concerts. Six or eight 'games' are 'played' in the
course ...
C. Critcher, Peter Bramham, Alan Tomlinson, 1995
10
Quick and the Dead: Stawell and Its Race Through Time
So it was in 1925 when the reviled 'Housey-Housey' marquee was erected in the
thick of things. The game — a bit like bingo with gambling — was already well
organised in Melbourne when it materialised in Stawell, and its operation was
fast ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSEY-HOUSEY»
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housey-housey is used in the context of the following news items.
Swept away by Sherwoods
... who in July 1960 was fined £100 for serving undercover police officers with illegal after-hours drinks and for “the running of housey-housey”. «The Northern Echo, Apr 15»
On the buses and the charabancs
The licensee, Liddle Towers, was fined £100 for illegal drinking and "the running of housey-housey". The stadium fell into receivership, and when the ... «The Northern Echo, Mar 15»
The last bingo hall in Cheltenham faces demolition to make way for …
... and the smoking ban of 2007. Should the plans for the bingo hall go ahead it will mean the end of organised housey-housey in the town. «Gloucestershire Echo, Aug 14»
Family memories of the war in your own words
For, at every turn, I found rings of old soldiers openly running schools of Crown and Anchor and Housey-Housey. “In fact, I found my last ... «Northamptonshire Telegraph, Aug 14»
Brave WWI messenger honoured with Victoria Cross
... Legion's administration as a general committee member, during which time he often joined in games of tombola and housey-housey at social ... «Dorset Echo, Aug 14»
Why I give the nanny state three cheers...and so should Labour
"Housey-housey-housey! Now, now, now!" Of course, the huge profits reaped by the drinks, betting and loans industries proved Labour's ... «Herald Scotland, Apr 14»
Bingo! Shappsy sets the Tories back decades
And indeed there was a moment, some decades ago, when housey-housey had its turn in the Notting Hill jeunesse dorée sun. For a short while ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
Hipp hipp hooray for the London Hippodrome
One of the bingo kings of the 70s and 80s was Jimmy Thomas, but he saw the writing on the wall as public enthusiasm for housey-housey, as it ... «The Stage, Feb 14»
Remembering the summers of our youth
... drawn out, one by one, like numbers in a game of housey-housey, they bore the dried mud and leaves of grass from last year's destination. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
Housey-housey has never been so tense
Welcome to Eurovision, Westminster style. I had no idea when I went along to the Private Member's Bill ballot yesterday that it was going to be ... «The Times, May 13»
