Word: welshness
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There Lou left him. with the little Welsh groom whose lunar spiritual isolation had mastered not only the horse but, momentarily, the stony Mrs. Witt. Lou went on, into New Mexico, with her mother and their other groom, a half-breed Navajo from Arizona. The latter, detached, impassive, had seemed more than human back in England; but here, with dusky squaws about, he could be seen as himself, stupid, ratlike, sexually predatory...
...just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record. A bye, a tidy win from the Welsh champion and, one misty morning, Miss Collett had her chance. They floated the Stars and Stripes with the Union Jack over the clubhouse. The galleries swelled to a mob. But such shots as Joyce Wethered's few men could have launched. She was never off the course...
...fame swept throughout the world. At Paris, special permission was sought from the Pope to name a church after her-L'Eglise de la Petite Fleur. Welsh Catholics placed their Apostolate of the Faith under her protection. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State planted the Irish standard before her tomb. The Bishop of Alaska confided his scattered Indians and Eskimos to her charge. A Catholic cathedral in the newest diocese in the U. S.-Monterey-Fresno-is to be built in her honor.*Two years ago, the Pope beatified her; more than 60,000 persons went to Rome...
...were Scotch, 3 Irish, 1 Welsh (Mr. Lloyd George), 1 Canadian (Mr. Bonar Law), 28 English. Twenty-five were peers or the sons of peers, 8 were country gentlemen or members of well-connected families, 5 came from the so-called middleclass: Addington, son of a doctor; Disraeli, grandson of a merchant; Gladstone, son of a shipowner; Asquith, son of a manufacturer; George, son of an itinerant teacher. The remaining one, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was born in the humblest circumstances, his relatives being fishers and farm hands...
...Gordon C. Warner, Chairman, Miss Edna Vath: Charles Flood, Miss Margaret Goullaud; R. M. Fuoss, Miss Rose Harrington; Edward Welton, Miss Dorothy M. Gordon; Howard Warren, Miss Eleanor Golden. Thomas Welsh, Miss Edythe Welsh...