Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he learned that The League of Nations possessed something called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. When he decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva the committee consists of a single hen-brained Cockney typist, who manages in no time at all to have the whole continent of Europe teetering on the brink...
Britain's cockney chanticleers had not yet started to crow in chorus. But one martial ditty (by Songwriters Max & Harry Nesbitt, Alec Daimler & Syd Green) hit the characteristic British cock-a-doodle...
...country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire Tory, and uncompromisingly for all that the Empire does not mean to Britain's underprivileged millions...
Tradition of the ancient bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...
...Deferred, his grim study in murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies in the U. S. By Teutonic mistake, Author Forester's fame is particularly bright in Germany, where...