Word: cockneyism
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...tradition the true London Cockney was "horn within sound of Bow bells" ringing from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside. The church's name came from the "bows" (arches) on which its first building was raised above London's swamps. In the 19th Century...
Stepdaughter Henrietta stood with a cockney crowd outside Buckingham Palace to watch three royal coaches with scarlet-liveried footmen bring Col. Bingham and his staff to present Ambassadorial credentials to King George...
Hangman's Whip (by Norman Reilly Raine & Frank Butler; William A. Brady Jr., producer). "The fear o' hell," wrote Bobby Burns, "is a hangman's whip." For 30 years, with whip and gun, Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does...
...investigators. Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora, longtime assistant New York District Attorney, was the Senators' counsel. Prize exhibit of the week's hearings was Samuel Insull Jr., whose father and uncle fled the country when their towers toppled. Short, spectacled, with a smile and spirit markedly like his cockney-born father's, Insull Jr. made a polite but far from abject witness. He testified that the Insull family once had paper profits of $25,000,000 on an original investment of $8,500,000 in Insull Utility Investments, Inc. Most of their stock was subscribed at $7.50 a share...
...scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses before...