Word: cockneyism
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...Russian hosts knew how to fight, and also how to play. Cockney ratings, Scottish coxswains, Yankee seamen recorded their approval and respect in the visitors' book. Wrote Scotsman Frank Rogers: "The U.S.S.R. is a wonderful country with magnificent people. I hope that friendship between the U.S.S.R. and England will be even stronger after...
George Thomas Cummins, cockney moviemaker of London has found that the old socialist sidewalk technique is sound business-the way to get an audience is to jump on a soapbox and raise your voice. The Cummins soapbox is British Paramount News,* makers of news shorts, which Cummins organized in 1931, and of which he is director and editor...
...Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people" in an East...
Within a Year. Another second-front mass rally was held in Trafalgar Square; 60,000 attended. Editor William Rust of the Daily Worker read a message from 500,000 C.I.O. workers, another ("What are we waiting for?") from onetime Cockney Charlie Chaplin. The small but vocal Communist Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King...
...family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...