Word: cockneyism
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Black constables shouting cockney rushed among the people, trying to get them indoors. The first impact struck the Jesuit mission on the shorefront, lifted it, sifted it through its invisible hands like a pack of cards. There perished ten priests. They had come a long way to die: from St. Louis, from Buffalo, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Superior and Racine (Wis.), Reading (Pa.), from Ireland, from Spain...
...does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more...
...explain the immense popularity of Betty Nuthall by pointing out how neatly she fits the public conception of the Average British Girl. Her face, pleasant enough to be pretty, is large, reddish, blue-eyed, friendly. Buxom and fair-haired, she speaks in an accent which is neither aristocratic nor cockney, almost giggles when she smiles. Not noisily exotic, like Lili de Alvarez, nor glumly beautiful, like Mrs. Moody, she is described by her friends with indefinite adjectives-"attractive," "unspoiled," "girlish...
...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Eligio ("Kid Chocolate") Sardinias, jaunty 128-lb. Cuban Negro who has won 167 fights, turned around as the whistle blew and led a flashy jab at the chin of Jack ("Kid") Berg, 135-lb. cockney...
...begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored points but Berg kept on top of him aggressively. Liking Chocolate for his buoyancy, his nerve, and the crafty speed of his wedge-shaped...