Word: cockneyism
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...quiz is a weekly "good will program" to find how much Americans know about England, and vice versa. American students ask English students such questions as "Where is Forest Hills?" and the Britishers counter with such queries as "what is a cockney...
...Mudlark. Hollywood's tribute to a mourning Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) is brightened by the cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray) who coaxes her back to her public duties (TIME...
...Mudlark. Hollywood's tribute to a mourning Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) is brightened by the cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray) who coaxes her back to her public duties (TIME...
Reluctant Lions. Today, Cockney Bookman Fred Bason is a minor British institution. He addresses Rotary luncheons, mimes on BBC television and exchanges bibliophiliac chatter with his pal, "Willy" (Somerset) Maugham. Nonetheless, at 42, Fred still lives in shimmy Walworth, and though he also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look...
Fred's Diary (1921-50) is at once an abbreviated record of Bason's daily life and a rung-by-rung account of his climb to Cockney notoriety. By dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred soon got on signature terms with everyone from Arnold Bennett to George Bernard Shaw. A few literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob...