Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was not entirely the King's fault, for his entourage did everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...
...Bulkeley and the Pirate is a condensation of the diary of Mr. William Bulkeley, a Welsh squire of the 18th Century. For 26 years this pugnacious, high-spirited, cranky old landowner kept a day-to-day record of his affairs, with little more to note than the state of his crops, the weather, his many unsuccessful lawsuits, his trips to Dublin, his impatience with the government, his troubles with his irresponsible son. A widower, Mr. Bulkeley had a 20-year-old son and a 21-year-old daughter when he began his diary. Blowing up about debts, lawyers and parsons...
With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
...must not make irrelevant remarks, vehemently justified the burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws of England...
After this passionate outburst the jury found themselves unable to agree, and as the three incendiaries walked out of the courtroom to await the next assizes they were shouldered on high by festive Welsh crowds who cheered wildly whenever Pastor Valentine mentioned "governmental iniquity...