Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again, published the poems. The Pre-Raphaelites had lost their ascetically youthful idealism. By the time Algernon Charles Swinburne joined Rossetti the upright Ruskin had washed his hands of him; Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti had graduated into "the fleshly school." Drugs, his guilty conscience, his Cockney mistress Fanny Cornforth, helped him downhill fast. By 1885 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was long dead, buried, waiting for its resurrection...
Effective in the early sequences in which a brutal commandant tortures the prisoners is the use of yellow color for shots and lamps in night scenes. Ably gloomy is Prisoner Howard's heavy-eyed performance. Remarkably feeble is the comedy relief supplied by a British cockney and a Texas cowboy. Good shot: the escaping mob of prisoners in murky hand-to-hand scrabbling with the airdrome troops...
...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...