Gangsterwise

Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire.

But what he did not respect, gangster-wise or otherwise but no wise, was that part of the pie that belonged to his uncles.

I wasn't cuttin' much of a figure, gangsterwise.