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In the United States, the lunch box or lunch pail has been used as a symbol of the working class. The phrase "lunch pail Democrat" is used to classify populist politicians who attempt to gain the votes of the working class. [16] The New York Times printed in 2008 that Joe Biden is a lunch-bucket Democrat. While his father had been wealthy early ...
Hubert Humphrey was described as the "last of the lunch-pail Democrats" in 1982 by New York magazine. [9] Al Gore's efforts during his 1992 campaign have been described as: "determined to cast himself as an old school, labor lunch-pail Democrat in the tradition of Hubert Humphey and Walter Mondale. This strategy was problematic in a number of ...
Walter Ernest Allen (23 February 1911 – 28 February 1995) was an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors. [1] He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History (1951).
The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language, [5] some of which are regional or specific to the use of English in different English-speaking countries. Kick the bucket: an informal term referring to someone's death; Drop the bucket on: to implicate a person in something (from Australian slang)
finalist for the National Book Award, Children's Literature David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser. Life
An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne (1982) Gabriel's Lament (1986), shortlisted for the Booker Prize; An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond (1990) Sugar Cane (1993) The Oxford Book of London (ed., 1995) First Love (ed., 1997) Kitty and Virgil (1998) The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp ...
Moule's earth closet design, circa 1909. During the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854 his exertions were unwearied. Impressed by the insalubrity of the houses, especially in the summer of 1858 (the Great Stink), he turned his attention to sanitary science, and invented what is called the dry earth system.
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).