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...When Henry Higgins agreed to transform Eliza Doolittle from “guttersnipe” to “duchess” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, his first command was a new wardrobe from Whiteley’s....
...As the world war two US general, aviation pioneer and war hero Jimmy Doolittle said: “The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven’t....
...Only the Truss / Kwarteng regime could bring to life one of the creatures of the beloved Doctor Doolittle children’s books....
...The character first appeared in Paul Gallico’s shaggily eventful 1958 source novel: Eliza Doolittle redrafted as her own Henry Higgins. The aesthetic owes less to Vogue than to a vintage picture book....
...Her husband of 48 years, Oliver Vanetta Lynn Jr, generally known as Doolittle or Doo, or Mooney after the whiskey he drank and peddled, was five years her senior when he married the 15-year-old Loretta Webb...
...Doolittle or Google Translate where you get specific words, but maybe it ends up as flashes of colour and some sound and you get a sort of a felt sense of what maybe they mean....
...We’ll be back for Dr Doolittle, among others, next summer....
...If Eliza Doolittle were alive today, she would as likely be found pitching to investors for seed funding as shouting “penny a bunch” to passers-by in Covent Garden....
...John Andrews, partner at the Kidderminster-based estate agent Doolittle and Dalley, says the pandemic has brought more buyers to his door from Birmingham, 20 miles east....
...I am thinking not only of Eliza Doolittle, but of the itinerant herb women who sold homegrown remedies and the watercress sellers of Shoreditch, who were renowned for their independent spirits....
...Henry Higgins ensured that the world knows that an Englishman (or Englishwoman in the case of Eliza Doolittle) can be placed in the social hierarchy the moment they open their mouth to speak....
...On the broader history, McKay is on shakier ground — the 1943 firestorm in Hamburg killed 18,000 in one night, not 37,000; James Doolittle, not Ira Eaker, was in command of the US Eighth Air Force bomber...
...High Desert House was originally commissioned as a home for artist Bev Doolittle and her husband Jay, who had long admired Kellogg’s organic, site-specific architecture....
...Hilda Doolittle, the American Imagist poet known as HD, was there first, moving in to number 44, according to Wade, in 1916 (though the blue plaque on the house puts her dates there as 1917-1918)....
...It reminded me of what ’Enry ’Iggins said of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady — “the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue”. “Like” is a preposition, not a conjunction....
...“In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire,” Eliza Doolittle observed in My Fair Lady, “hurricanes hardly ever happen”. Meteorologically and electorally, the flower girl was right....
...to Doctor Doolittle — a formula had arrived, promising, or seeming to, prosperity on a shoestring. With serious critics cheering, to boot. It couldn’t last and didn’t....
...Meanwhile the title character, sheathed in hot pink, becomes a sassy Eliza Doolittle figure, putting the cat among the pigeons in this genteel, crumbling society....
...brendan.greeley@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Eliza Doolittle headline hit me right between the eyes / From Stanley Hazen, Charlottesville, VA, US...
...Since the beginning of her career she has worked with sportswear giant Nike and assisted at photographer Rankin’s studio, where she has dressed singers including Eliza Doolittle, FKA Twigs and Skepta....
...Despite his preening rudeness, Trey emerges as an oddly likeable young man-on-the-make, who deftly exposes the vanity and hypocrisy of those around him, like Bernard Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle or Andrew Undershaft...
...In Pygmalion, Shaw gave Eliza Doolittle the insight that the difference between a duchess and a poor woman is the way they are treated, and O’Toole remarks: “His politics are very, very simple — that nobody...
...Under the tutelage of Professor Higgins, the cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle can pass through court society....
...It is a task worthy of Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, who sought to pass off foul-mouthed flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a duchess....
...When George Bernard Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle danced through Covent Garden in 1912, dreaming of a house with “Lots of coal makin’ lots of heat” her jaw might have hit the cobbles if she had seen the portered...
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