A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from September 14, 2011
Fed Up

Entry in progress—B.P,
   
Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
fed up adj
Definition of FED UP
: tired, sated, or disgusted beyond endurance
First Known Use of FED UP
1900
 
The Free Dictionary
fed up
adj.
Unable or unwilling to put up with something any longer: “She was fed up with their complaints. I resigned because I was fed up.”
 
(Oxford English Dictionary
Slang phr. to be fed up: to be surfeited or disgusted (with), bored or tired to breaking-point. So fed-up adj.
[1882 F. Arnold Three-cornered Ess. (1886) 4   Fed up to the eyelids, it is no care to him that there are other people all otherwise than so well off.]
1900 Westm. Gaz.13 Nov. 2/3   It may be quite true that, to use an expression often heard in South Africa just now, the men are ‘fed up’ with the war.
1906 Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 9/5,  I am about ‘fed-up’ over this motor-car.
1914 Evening News 19 Sept. 4/1   We have also seen hundreds of German prisoners, mostly looking ‘fed up’.
   
OCLC WorldCat record
Fed up!
Author: H B Hedley; C Hartley Milburn; John Humphries; Ernest C Rolls; Herman Darewski
Publisher: London : Herman Darewski Music Pub. Co., ©1917.
Edition/Format:  Musical score : Songs : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Fed up!
Author: Fred W Leigh; Tom Costello
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1918.
Series: Sixpenny popular edition, no. 1535. 
Edition/Format:  Musical score : Songs : English
 
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Fed Up! : a feast of frazzled foods
Author: Rex Barron
Publisher: New York : Putnam, 2000.
Edition/Format:  Book : Fiction : Primary school : English
Summary: In a series of alphabetically arranged scenes, a cabbage cries over coleslaw, eggs exit, oranges object, and other foods are pictured to represent all the letters of the alphabet.
 
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Fat man fed up : how American politics went bad
Author: Jack Germond
Publisher: New York : Random House, ©2004.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
Summary: The political columnist shares observations about the American election process, covering such topics as the misuse of polls, media misrepresentation and irresponsibility, and the role of racism in politics.
 
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Fed up! : our fight to save America from Washington
Author: Rick Perry
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1st ed
Summary: Perry shows how an increasing concentration of power in Washington will lead to further unsustainable debt, greater limits on opportunity and success, and a permanent dependency class. The two-term governor of Texas also explains how to put government back in the hands of the people.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Wednesday, September 14, 2011 • Permalink


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