Word: blimey
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...Downing St. The little knots grew until Downing Street had to be cleared by police. The crowds overflowed into Whitehall and down to Trafalgar Square. They were anxious but good-humored. Each Cabinet Minister as he arrived was greeted with shouts: "Good Old Snowden!" "There's Jimmy! Gor Blimey...
Toward the end of the number, the authors become increasingly conscious of the war. Mr. Simpson contributes a lively and amusing, though rather extravagant story in British nautical dialect of the "Blimey" school. Mr. Wolf savagely attacks Galsworthy for his attitude toward the war; it is hard for one who has not read the offending utterances to judge how far they warrant such an assault, but Mr. Wolf certainly makes his victim appear futile and irritating. At the end "A. K. MoC." interposes a few mild words in Galsworthy's behalf. "B. D. A." writes a review of Professor Perry...