Word: welshness
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...when Britons thirsted to hang the Kaiser, obliging Mr. David Lloyd George won a general election and three more years as Prime Minister by promising to do so.* Ever since 1922, when the fuzzy-haired Welsh Liberal was finally ousted by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, he has been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor...
Received with complete apathy an announcement by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that, despite the boasted British Treasury surplus, His Majesty's Government chose to welsh on their War-debt payment due the U. S. last week.* Snorted Liberal David Lloyd George: "I should have thought it was not altogether wise to boast to your creditor how much better off you are than he when you have not paid his bill...
They got sick in great smoking contest, behind the bushes, or from eating the Welsh rarebit which the Tennessee Shad concocted of cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their...
Grafted Eyes, Mrs. Daphne Muir, only person ever to have the corneas of both eyes grafted successfully, appeared in Boston to show how Dr. Tudor Thomas, Welsh specialist, does such grafting...
...greatest feat was the translation of an ancient Welsh manuscript of Bardic music, written approximately 1,000 years ago and the subject for 200 years of fruitless inspection. This, says Arnold Dolmetsch, reveals "a flow of melody and a poignance that proclaim a most inspired and emotional period of music." Compositions of 934 A.D., he found, were "amazingly near akin to the most modern music...