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... Please, sir, I want some more. The scene in the workhouse, which Dickens drew with such ironic vividness and indignation, shoivs the waif Oliver pleading for more gruel from the stony-hearted workhouse master (Kenneth Downy) Don't Artful Dot picturesqu ...
... eventually CHARLES DICKENS' 44 Oliver Twist, in case you don't know it, is briefly, the story of a foundling born in a workhouse. Apprenticed t to an undertaker, he runs away to London, becomes involved with the notorious Fagin and his gang of young ...
... Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, which is to provide ten houses and four flats in order to meet the current housing shortage. The workhouse is solidly built of Cotswold stone, and its grounds, which have not been cultivated for some years, will be divided up among ...
... the sea son's crop of two-year-olds as they would be, say, six months later, we should be heading almost annually for the workhouse, or such other institution as a brave new world might have in store for us. Let us consider the leading juveniles, as officially ...
... of the spotted-flycatcher in Norfolk. Penny Whipp, by Mr. Chris Massie (Seeker and Warburg 7 s. 6 d.), is a novel about workhouse life, a grim piece of slumming but enlivened by a know ledge as picaresque as W. H. Davies had. Such things as the technique ...
... literary adaptation the best scene of all is an interpolation showing Oliver's mother fighting through the storm to the workhouse. It is no criticism of the film then to record that I found it as depressing as the original Dickens. For the non-enthusiast ...
... claimed to indicate the approach of winter, and not far away a vagrant once inscribed these words on the walls of the local workhouse Brough Hill black bottle cimmiterry. Recalling this, it is only fair to record that this year Brough Hill J failed to live ...
... bouillabaisse. As for rock-salmon, this can conceal the identity of either catfish and monkfish, while brill, known as the workhouse turbot, has often been passed off as hake. Of the lesser-known types of fish to which the public attention is now being drawn ...
... it has taken one's breath away Mary's second marriage to the unthinkable Johnny, and poor Mrs. Sheehy's martyrdom in the workhouse hospital. The story opens in 1928, with the coming of strolling players (or Balties to Tullynawlin, and closes in 1942, with ...