Word: wot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peddling some $1,000,000 worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss to explain why anyone would pay that much to take her picture, Twiggy said objectively: "Hit's not really wot you call a figger...
...Wot! Wot! Wot!" Today, still remarkably spry for his years, Böhm jets between continents to conduct about 80 performances a year, is already booked through 1970. A high-domed, bookish-looking man, he is known among musicians as a conductor long on native talent but short on patience. He is a stickler for punctuality, keeps a collection of 15 clocks ticking in perfect unison in the bedroom of his Vienna apartment. At rehearsals, he can be a demanding despot, responding to mistakes by roaring "Wot! Wot! Wot!" But his dictatorial ways are all in service of the music...
...says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York wot is supposed to know their onions...
...film also introduces to our shores Miss Barbara Windsor, who rose to stardom in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be. Playing the unfaithful wife, she is a stunning sexpot (measurements 38-22-35) with a remarkable platinum poodle-pompadour (not a wig either), Britain's talented answer to the dumb-blonde Judy Holliday of Born Yesterday. (Incidentally, Miss Windsor will appear as a guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show on television tomorrow night...
...Five was Cassius' magic number, the round in which he promised to demolish Henry Cooper, 29, a onetime house plasterer who claims the British and Empire Heavyweight championships. But that was two weeks off. In the meantime, there were 55,000 tickets to be sold, and Cor, luv, wot larks...