Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young hero, who has somewhere picked up an accent that is neither Canadian, cockney, nor English, is opposed by his foster-father's sister (Catherine Willard), a "congenital virgin," and is not very elaborately received by the object of his attentions, either: she has "acquired her virginity," but she naturally has a change of heart before the final curtain...
...With his Cockney mother, Queen Rose, the young ruler will sail to his kingdom as soon as passage can be arranged. Meanwhile he is brushing up on his Malay...
WNEW auditioned 70 Negro players, discovered no difference between "white" and "Negro" voices, found voices for all types of parts from pure cockney to half-breed Mexican. WNEW will mention the American Negro Theater only once-at the end of each program...
...cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...