Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another cockney called the palace "the poorhouse." Rebuked, he answered: "Why not, they're living on our charity, ain't they?" Any American who read malice or even envy into this would be not only wrong, but fiercely resented. The cockney wanted the royal family living just that way, and he wanted it the more fiercely as his "charity" pinched...
...last could more accurately be called a modern view of British vaudeville. It is the most dazzling of the three, and presents Miss Lawrence in one of the great comical feats of recent times. She and her able partner, Graham Payn, playing a vaudeville team, appear as rod-headed cockney sailors, and go through a song, dance and joke routine that can only be described as out of this world. The play progresses through a scene in their dressing room, where Miss Lawrence buffoons her way about the stage in various states of dress and undress, and ends on another...
...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...
Lewis' new-found Christianity also introduced him to Charles Williams, the author he says has influenced his writing more than any other, living or dead. Williams was a scholarly, self-educated, Cockney-accented Londoner who died last year, leaving an astonishing assortment of essays, poetry and fiction that delighted a small circle of Christian intellectuals. His first novel, War in Heaven, told of a cops-&-robbers chase through modern England which followed when somebody turned up with the Holy Grail. The Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing...
...tennis public would like Kramer better if he were more of a showman. They like the melodramatics of a Tilden, the antics of a beret-bearing Borotra, the Cockney ping-pongery of a Perry. Kramer makes his "big game" look too easy...