Word: cockneyism
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...says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable. . . . [The Mob character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous and anti-cultural; it is very knowing and knows very little." But no yearner after yore is Critic Notch; he thinks the present age "most fascinating in human history;" despising and fearing Mob ascendancy, he wants "an emphasis on the nonutilitarian element in education." believes the basis...
...Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that the motto of the American delegation is Faith, Hope and Parity?" As the top-hatted, frock-coated delegation was met by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes in a grey fedora and lounge suit, the inevitable cockney voice that seems to exist in every English crowd boomed, "Ow! Pipe th' disarmin' blokes...
...Paris from her third to fourteenth years, she attended the College Sévigné, developed a linguistic talent which now allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian. In England she studied dramatics at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy, made her début in London (1915) as a cockney girl in The Laughter of Fools. She reached the U. S. by making friends with Actress Elsie Jam's, whom she accosted at a stage door...
...Engine Cleaner and now I'm one of 'is Majesty's Privy Councilors, but I guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing square with Daughter Canada...
Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative, fussbudget Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks...