Word: gadding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gwaed y groes sy'n codi fyni R'eiddil yn goncwerwr mawr Gwaed y groes sydd yn ddarostwng Gewri cedyrn ffyrdd I llawr Gad m'i deimlo Awel o galfaria fryn* So sang Secretary of Labor James John Davis one night last week over the radio from Washington. It was an old, old hymn which his mother Esther used to sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight took from railroad owners and officials, their families, servants and friends, a most cherished privilege?the right to gad about the country free in a private...
...from Cape Town. Publisher Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun, gad-abouting over Africa and Europe, was forced down last month on the Italian Riviera. The strip of beach (near Bordighera) was too small for a takeoff. Last week he was still trying to load his ship on a barge to take it somewhere whence he can hop for England...
...warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House of Commons rash Pixie Snowden, still defiant, received a Conservative broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that...
...Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...