Word: cockney
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...Eden caused by ill-health: "How it came about that [Eden] behaved in a manner completely at variance with his past is a mystery on which the memoirs throw no light." But Gaitskell himself came in for some digs from his own side, from Lord Morrison of Lambeth, the cockney " 'Erbie" Morrison who still resents being defeated for the party leadership by Gaitskell. As the Suez crisis deepened, wrote Lord Morrison last week, "Mr. Gaitskell and our Labor [leadership] began to take fright, to become very anti-anti-British, anti-French and anti-Israeli-and rather hysterical...
...Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish; and Huddel, a cockney. The cast might have come from the nightmare of a blintz-tormented sorcerer, and its actions provide no political, religious or metaphysical insights...
Stanley Holloway, 69, bumptious cockney papa of My Fair Lady who pleaded memorably with his friends to get him to the church on time, got to Buckingham Palace on time to receive the Order of the British Empire from Prince Philip for his many years of distinction in the theater...
Queen Elizabeth II was pleased to bestow her royal blessings on some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial...
...later recalled thinking, and his uniform was hopelessly soiled -that could mean explanations to . the sergeant. Snarling directions, Oakes guided the Davies family, one by one, to safety. "Never mind my name," he snapped. "If you've anything to say about me, I'm P.C. 369 B." Cockney Courage. What a grateful family had to say about its rescuer was glowing enough to provide Oakes-to his immense surprise-with Britain's coveted civilian award, the George Medal. Yet the constable's finest hour, as British Freelance Writer Collier makes clear in his meticulous chronicle...