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...setting might be a farm or private house, a tourist hotel or a bar in Salisbury, the speaker might be male or female; the accent anything from upper class British to cockney to Greek. Various illustrations were used, though the Kaffir who, with a modern kitchen, nevertheless made a cooking fire on the floor recurred frequently. But the import was always the same, and the speaker white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Brink of Armageddon | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

Parents are back in style in three books of poems for the young. John Lawrence's Rabbit & Pork: Rhyming Talk (Crowell; $6.95) revives the old cockney custom of jingling euphemisms: "Johnny Homer" to mean corner. By means of fine-lined wood engravings, Lawrence invests each miniverse with whimsy and bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CHILDREN'S BOOKS | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...morning exercise, a cockney occupant told me cheerfully, They don't often let their victim go too early, mate.' But at 10 o'clock I was taken before the chubby commandant, who blandly asked if I had had a good night. Then he told me that I would be put on the noon flight out of Addis Ababa. He also asked when I might be back in Ethiopia. I replied that I thought that it probably rested a good deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Fighting Rebels And Royalists | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...into the Bellamys, who know their patrician comfort depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Everything's Coming Up Rose | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted to walk in on Lady Marjorie like that and scream: 'Ow, she's in bed with the wrong man!' " That line never got spoken. Instead, Jean based much of the cockney dialogue on her mother's pungent expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Everything's Coming Up Rose | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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