Word: cockneyism
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...appeared in Manhattan last week in a series of character sketches. With no more props than could be put in a pigeonhole, she managed to make herself into a series of totally different and exceedingly interesting people. She was a lady taking an Italian lesson; she was a Cockney girl on the Thames embankment; she was a Philadelphia matron at a children's party; she was a Polish actress, having scenes with her director; she was an English horsewoman, mouthing at her breakfast; she was a U. S. tourist in an Italian-church; she was a Dalmatian peasant girl...
...diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three bits of cockney slang, by the way, are worth half an hour of the choicest native profanity...
Alighting from her limousine Queen Mary climbed the stoop, pressed the bell. She waited some time, for a new, slow and surly Cockney wench had just been taken into service by the home...
...snapped the surly Cockney, "Don't yer get pokin' fun at me! W'ot's yer real monniker...
Before Her Majesty had time to utter a second queenly remark, her chauffeur came bounding two steps at a time, and uttered curt words which carried conviction to the Cockney wench...