Word: welsh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
NECESSARY EVIL: THE LIFE OF JANE WELSH CARLYLE (618 pp.)-Lawrence & Ellsabefh Hanson-Macmillan...
Thomas Carlyle was often a boor, but never a bore. When he came courting Jane Welsh, he "made puddings in his teacup" and "scratched the fender dreadfully," causing her to say that he should be confined in "carpet-shoes and handcuffs" with only his "tongue . . . left at liberty...
After a lecture in Chicago ("My guardian angel was a nonsuccessful psychoanalyst in life"), Welsh Poet Dylan
...owner of a big Welsh coal company in Cardiff dropped in at the office of Britain's highest-paid corporation lawyer, to pay him for winning a big case for the company. The fee was 2,000 guineas ($10,000). Unblinkingly, the capitalist started to write a check, but the lawyer interrupted. "Don't bother to make it out to me," said Sir Stafford Cripps, "just make it payable to the Cardiff Labor Party...