Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save his son from the consequences of murder by confessing to the crime himself. The victim in the case is the son's handsome blonde mistress (Greta Nissen). In court, circumstantial evidence has nearly convicted the father when a new witness appears. This is a mild mannered Cockney whose presence at the scene of the killing no one had suspected. His testimony clears father and son and indicates that the taking off of Miss Nissen was less deplorable than it seemed...
...employers. The story is a revised version of the Cinderella legend concerning a girl whose parents have overlooked her charms. To attract the attention of a young barrister, the girl is forced to accept employment as nursery governess to his son. Disguised in spectacles, wig, puff-sleeves and a cockney accent, she interrupts the barrister (Leslie Howard) to bring him cups of tea and bouillon. It takes him a long time to penetrate her hoax and when he does so he is nearly deprived of his reward by one of his clients who has been more perceptive. All this...
Black constables shouting cockney rushed among the people, trying to get them indoors. The first impact struck the Jesuit mission on the shorefront, lifted it, sifted it through its invisible hands like a pack of cards. There perished ten priests. They had come a long way to die: from St. Louis, from Buffalo, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Superior and Racine (Wis.), Reading (Pa.), from Ireland, from Spain...
...does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more...
...explain the immense popularity of Betty Nuthall by pointing out how neatly she fits the public conception of the Average British Girl. Her face, pleasant enough to be pretty, is large, reddish, blue-eyed, friendly. Buxom and fair-haired, she speaks in an accent which is neither aristocratic nor cockney, almost giggles when she smiles. Not noisily exotic, like Lili de Alvarez, nor glumly beautiful, like Mrs. Moody, she is described by her friends with indefinite adjectives-"attractive," "unspoiled," "girlish...