Word: welshness
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...Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and dirtiest. We must . . . give them hell in every sort of way." As rebellious criticism mounted, political dopesters even mentioned David Lloyd George the "Welsh Wizard" who won the last war for Great Britain, as a possible last-ditch Cabinet appointee. And from France came censored dispatches predicting soon the formation of a "sacred union," Government of all parties...
Great Britain, which had not won a diplomatic hand from Italy for years, stood pat. German exports as well as imports are under a confiscation ban, she serenely pointed out. No exceptions could be made. Furthermore, Italy did not necessarily need to import German coal when high grade Welsh or U. S. coal could be had in unlimited quantities. Nor would going to war with England provide coal for Italian factories and fireplaces. It would shut off the supply completely. Il Duce was indeed in a tight spot...
...Mean Get-out." In England, white-maned David Lloyd George, 73, the little Welsh lion who galvanized and led the British in 1916-18, has appointed himself a scourge to the Chamberlain Government on the subject of Food. His model farm at Churt, Surrey is but part of his credentials as Food expert: he revealed last week that he faced (and averted) a moment in 1917 "when we were within three weeks of having no bread in the country." Last week, speaking at a luncheon in London's swank Dorchester Hotel, he cried: "I have one message...
...Welsh Tractor Driver John Sims, quoting James Russell Lowell...
...many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott of the Broadway Hunt in the Cotswolds. Five other Scott couples are with the Vic-Mead Hunt in Wilmington...