Word: welshness
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...chunky little Welshman named Frederick Hall Thomas, who had used the name of Freddie Welsh because he was proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...
...COLGATE ab r h po a e Welsh c.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Bridges 3b. 3 0 0 0 3 0 Richardson 2b. 3 0 2 3 1 0 Steinberg s.s. 3 0 1 1 2 1 Hopkins p. 3 0 1 0 2 0 Gardner r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Jones c. 3 0 0 3 2 1 Bolterman 1b. 2 0 0 9 0 0 Clarke...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
Born just in time for the flood of early nineteenth century Romanticism, Robert Owen, son of a Welsh saddle-monger, managed in the course of his long life to embrace most of the intellectual innovations which were awakening England from its lethargy of unadulterated nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model...
...series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newsgatherer, wrestler, linguist, social worker, Harvard student and African explorer, has French, Irish, Norwegian and Welsh blood. Unless this is his autobiography he may be said to have imagination...