Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler to try his invasion on Christmas."* From amid...
...British had any feeling of complacency last week it was not because of Frank Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen...
...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating the local coal miners. Discouraged by tory opposition, she gets the will to go on from the presence of one coal-stained boy who promises great talent...
...jumping events always get top billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...