Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green folds of the Lower Midlands. The chimes in the stone tower of the Anglican Church peal over sheep meadows and farmers' plots, over royal parks and public playgrounds. The town is small; only six trains per day chuff up to the dead-end terminal to disgorge the Cockney families from Wands-worth or Chipping Norton or Stepney who come to enjoy a day on the river...
Rosemary Harris came over all the way from London to play the role of Eliza; and she was certainly worth importing. She negotiated all the phonetic difficulties impeccably as she underwent the transformation from a cockney flower-girl to a lady who could pass for a well-bred duchess...
...movement at all is really necessary. But their efforts at staging are intelligently modest, and it must be credited to them that the performances are almost uniformly good. DeFrench and Greely Curtis are convincingly miserable in All That Fall, and William Driver and Hope Christopoulos do right by Cockney accents in A Smell of Burning. Stanley Jay gives the best performance of the evening in Momento Mori, playing an old man with a fine stooped shrillness...
...Queen's loyal subjects clearly liked Elizabeth just as she was. Said a cockney cab driver: "I vote Labor every time. But there's nothing like our Queen. No President could talk like that and mean what she means to everyone." A university student was even more choked up: "She really shot back at her critics. After hearing her, my Dad said to me, 'Ruddy good show, that,' and that's just what...
East Enders grouped in front of the cart or watching diffidently from their doorways spattered applause throughout the half-hour play, guffawed occasionally at the dock-flavored cockney. Two white-haired women joined in the responses when the family in the play took Communion with the vicar, and the rest of the audience nodded approvingly as points were hammered home...