10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLUMMY»
Discover the use of
slummy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
slummy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A debut novel based on the popular London Times Magazine column by the same name follows the misadventures of stay-at-home mom Lucy Sweeney, who struggles between the chaos of caring for three young boys and her ideals as inspired by a ...
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The Secret Life of a
Slummy Mummy
'Witty, observant and supremely intelligent' The Times 'If you're struggling to find your own inner yummy mummy, this is for you' Woman 'There is something of Bridget Jones's hopeless-but-adorable quality about Lucy.
leaders to cases of this sort, but that's the way Slummy has persuudid himself to
look at it. " There's Plug," he'd say, " gets five hundred a year under government.
Very well. If he likes to spend fifty pound a year on discount instead of the opera,
...
George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1864
I think, however, that Slummy, over and above the additional security which he
supposed to attach to the fixity of his debtor, enjoyed his propinquity for its own
sake ; liked to meet him in the streets, and watch his nervous looks as he ...
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Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism
Pat O'Mara, a Liverpool-Irish 'slummy', grew up in the dire poverty of the
Edwardian south end alongside 'Negroes, Chinese, Mulattoes, Filipinos, almost
every nationality under the sun, most of them boasting white wives and large half-
caste ...
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The Good Mother: Contemporary Motherhoods in Australia
We develop these ideas through a discussion of a new motherhood distinction
that has recently emerged: the yummy mummy versus the slummy mummy. /
yummy mummy/ (say yumee 'mumee) noun Colloquial a woman who represents
a ...
Susan Goodwin, Kate Huppatz, 2010
And now they are back. Certainly older, probably not wiser, and definitely as hilariously catastrophic as before. For all those who have asked how to be a woman, here is HOW TO BE...A BAD MOTHER.
What good was it to kiss a girl on the Ferris wheel when you were eleven if you
were to open the paper eleven years later and learn that she had burned to death
in a slummy little house on a slummy little dead-end street? What good was it to ...
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Dishing it Out: Power and Resistance Among Waitresses in a ...
... she herself subscribed to the stereotype of the down-and-out waitress "
because you see stuff on television, you see these wives or single ladies who
waitress and they live in slummy apartments or slummy houses and they dress in
rags.
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Solsbury Hill: A Novel
For Eleanor, this means ancestors and a devastating romantic history that bears on her own life, on the history of the novel Wuthering Heights, and on the destinies of all who live in its shadow.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLUMMY»
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slummy is used in the context of the following news items.
Hollywood North: Disney movie brings magic to Victoria
Sequences set on Isle of the Lost, the slummy, desolate hell where the quartet has been exiled with their wicked parents, were filmed in Vancouver. Capital ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
Orlando makes list of 23 cities where millennials can't afford …
At least not without living in a slummy apartment or having a bunch of roommates. Bloomberg reports that its real-estate listing site, Zillow, researched what ... «Orlando Weekly, Jul 15»
The best recent thrillers – reviews roundup
The latest novel from Fiona Neill, best known for her Slummy Mummy columns, is The Good Girl (Michael Joseph, £7.99), a stark morality tale about the perils of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
New apartment project breaks ground near University of Houston
“This isn't going to be a slummy place. This is going to be safe, clean and new.” Several multifamily developers are building workforce-oriented apartments with ... «Houston Business Journal, Jun 15»
Alessandra Ambrosio trades her usual tight attire for droopy …
Slummy mummy! Alessandra Ambrosio sported a relaxed patterned jumpsuit on Thursday during a playdate in Santa Monica, California. Alessandra paired the ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
X Games Aspen 2015: Get To Know Nick Goepper
Josh: I think most of us here in the States will remember Sochi for the slummy conditions that were portrayed in the media. Was it as bad as it looked over there? «Crave Online, Jan 15»
Dubai Has 5 Star Hotels For The Rich, And These Slums For Migrant …
Iranian photographer Farhad Berahman exposed Sonapur's slummy life in a photo series earlier this year. Check these: Under Surveillance in Abu Dhabi. «Carbonated.tv, Dec 14»
Ten Years' Worth of Work Turns Shabby into Chic on Manhattan's E …
When Ellen Kornfeld took over as manager of 200 East 16th Street about ten years ago, "It was a beautiful prewar building but it looked like a slummy kind of ... «Habitat magazine, Oct 14»
Yummy mummies? No way, we're slummy mummies! New mothers …
New mothers disregard fashion after giving birth - and only take pride in their appearance again when their child reaches three years and nine months. «Daily Mail, Apr 14»
Second Listen: "Zeitgeist"
They recorded a bit and dragged their feet through some slummy live shows in Chicago until they met D'Arcy Wretzky at another slummy live show and recruited ... «HEAVEmedia, Mar 14»
