Word: limey
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Trouble is, it is India in the year 1944. There's a war on, and at command HQ the best interests of Allied unity seem to demand the death penalty for a Yank who kills a limey. "He's got to hang," observes British Medico Trevor Howard. Only Mitchum thinks that justice must stand "apart from power and apart from might." All he has to do is locate the army psychiatrist who was shipped off to the bush because he wrote a medical report diagnosing Wynn's insanity. While looking, Mitchum consorts with France Nuyen, a plump...
...that. Looking ahead the cultist's mouth waters with prospects of death struggles on the Orient Express and feverish rendezvous with Vesper and Pussy Galore. Even the laymen seemed to like it last night, and as one poppet murmured on her way out of the theatre, "That's one limey who gets me where I live...
Born in cockney London, the daughter of an acting family whose traceable history on the stage goes back to medieval Italy, Ida Lupino is referred to by her husband, Actor Howard Duff, as "the ex-Limey broad." They have been married eleven years, and she adores him so much that there have been four reconciliations. Six years ago, when they began acting as a husband-wife team in their own productions of Mr. Adams and Eve for CBS. some Madison Avenue oracle told them that it would be unsuccessful because they "would not be identified with the next-door neighbors...
...Fringe and its off-Broadway sibling. The Establishment. Non-British plays like Tchin-Tchin and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore are visibly sparked by the highvoltage acting of England's Margaret Leighton and Hermione Baddeley. Even cornball tastes are catered to satisfactorily in such limey-flavored musicals as Oliver! and Stop the World-I Want to Get Off. Now The Hollow Crown, more caviar than cornball, does not let the British side down. It is an expertly fashioned, gracefully rendered, persistently evocative evening of dramatic readings, chronicling a cavalcade of English monarchs from King Arthur...
...Simple Life. But along with Australia's imitation of things British went a nagging resentment that showed up in the contemptuous word "pommy"-the Australian equivalent of the American word "limey." Aside from the overflow of British jails, Australia's original immigrants often migrated out of poverty, and many were members of Britain's minority races -the Scots, Irish and Welsh. Making a hard living, Australians developed into a tough, contumacious, raffish people, inveterately hostile to authority, and looking at the world with a fresh, irreverent...