Word: welshness
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...Conrad, William James, W. H. Hudson, John Galsworthy. In July, 1914, he finished what was to have been his last book, The Good Soldier, joined a Welsh regiment as lieutenant, and went to the front. Returning from the War with health impaired, he wrote two novels in anger which were not published. He intended to write no more. He changed his mind, however, and in 1922 commenced his famed series dealing with England and the War, Some Do Not, No More Parades, and A Man Could Stand Up. The fourth and final novel of this sequence, The Last Post, will...
...London is roughly 200 miles by road, and by road a small army of 400 unemployed miners, old men with sticks and young men with fresh complexions, set out last week to present a petition "in boots" to Parliament calling attention to the suffering and distress in the Welsh coal mines...
...lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...John Daniel, "Biscuit king of Great Britain" and Cardiff shipbuilder, headed a delegation of Welsh Moose; handed Director General Davis a gavel made of wood from the house where Mr. Davis was born, in Tredegar, Wales...
...Friday they set out, the Mayor in a third-class coach, for Ireland, birthplace of Mr. Walker's father. Their boat-train stopped at the Welsh town of Llanfairpwyllcylghlantsillohogh, which not even the glib Walker tongue could surround. Welcomed in Dublin as a homeboy, the Mayor of New York admitted that his eyes were full of tears; but he retained enough presence of mind to tell reporters that if they asked him about Irish politics he would "throw them out of the window." He sped to the paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech...