Word: welshness
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...those days money was easily earnt and plenty of it," and the Welsh coal miners lived a powerful, lyric, godly life without regard for English speech or English law; eating excellently, working hard and steadily. The authority of God and of each family's father dwelt as organic in them as song, and song was as immediate to them "as sight is in the eye." Then paradise was lost: the iron works in the next valley shut down and flooded the collieries with cheap labor...
John Llewellyn Lewis was in his 60th year, his 21st as president of the mine workers, his fifth at the helm of C. I. O. He was an emigrant Welsh miner's brat in Iowa when, this day 50 years ago, 198 men from the coal fields met in Columbus to weld their various feuding unions into one United Mine Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over...
Married. Kay Stammers, best and most beautiful of British women tennists; and Second Lieutenant Michael Menzies of His Majesty's Welsh Guards; in London...
...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...
...book of short stories and poems, The World I Breathe, introducing to the generality of U. S. readers a young Welsh writer named Dylan Thomas whose druidical Welshness is probably without modern parallel. Greatly gifted, enormously mannered, his Merlinesque-magic dream stories were best when least diffuse, distinguished often by fine endings...