Word: glyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls dashed into the heavily curtained back kitchen, cried: "Now!" A grinning, red-haired schoolmaster called Glyn ducked between lines of drying laundry, flicked a wall switch, punched the playback button on a battered tape recorder, and darted back, screwdriver in hand, to his homemade 80-watt transmitter. And out into the night, on BBC-TV's Channel 5, went the Freedom Station's call signal: the sound of a pencil tapped three times on a saucepan...
Operating like a resistance group in an occupied country, which they argue Wales is, Glyn and his friends have put "The Voice of Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin...
British officials, leary of creating any nationalist Welsh martyrs, have been desultory in trying to track down the illegal broadcasters. At week's end, the Freedom Station popped up in West Wales for the first time, and boasted two new transmitters. Said the man named Glyn: "This is just the beginning...
...Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped...
Scented Boudoirs. Amid the frostbitten tubers of modern fiction, no one, but no one, digs Ouida's passion flowers. Her heroes and heroines had names like Fulke Ravensworth, Marion Lady Vavasour and Vaux or Sir Fulke Erceldorme. Elinor Glyn and her tiger skin were nothing to Ouida's scented boudoirs. Yet, in an age before Cinerama, she was a great descriptive writer, able to evoke Venice, Vienna, Chamonix without ever having paid them so much as a courtesy call...