Word: rhys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WITHERED ROOT-Rhys Davies-Holt ($2.50). "You Welsh! A race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings...
After the ceremony the Pragger Wagger (Oxford slang for Prince of Wales) was invited to witness the chief event of the Eisteddfod-the crowning of the prize ode winner, Prosser Rhys of Aberystwith, editor of The Welsh Banner...
...Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson. The Duchess said that since a conference had set the age limit, a conference should revise it. She also commented adversely upon giving the vote to "young tinkers and hawkers" who had no opportunity to know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the cutting rejoinder that tinkers were as well fitted to vote as hotel butterflies. "I have no acquaintance with hotel butterflies," parried Her Grace, smiling, "but I know some tinkers. At any rate, hotel butterflies can read and write...
...Chance", is a sketch of an incident in a small American village at the time of the entrance of the United States into the World War. The play was written by Mrs. C. Antoinette Wood, and the production is under the direction of Miss Katherine Searle, coach, and Miss Rhys James, prompter...