Word: welshness
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...kennel, well known to dogmen, was Welwire, at Shrewsbury, Mass. Its specialties are wire-haired fox and Welsh terriers. It had been the plaything of Dr. Homer Gage and his son, Homer Jr., until the latter died in 1925. Then Dr. & Mrs. Gage "endowed" it for the life of the present kennel-master in honor of their...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
...writer of the editorial "Welsh Rarebit" in yesterday's CRIMSON seems to be under the impression that the Celtic culture and languages are dead, for he says: "A purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little." I can not speak from personal experience as to the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands but I do know that Welsh is very much alive. I know two proofs of this: first, there is a Welsh newspaper the "Baner ar Amseran Cymon" of which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk...
...preserving a culture as a museum, piece. Whether a university can affect the habits of a whole people is doubtful; a purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little. Few will hope for a university at which eager students learn the intricacies of Manx, Welsh, and Cornish only to pass on the knowledge to other bookish persons...
...fierce Welsh roasting was what David Lloyd George gave last week to cucumber-cool Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the sacrosanct London Times. The Times has deplored Mr. Lloyd George's feature-writing for William Randolph Hearst. Recently the Times dug back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers...