Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washing machines came next. Then sets" of china, electric irons, cricket bats & balls, cameras. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, sets of "modern classics." Fountain pens, fancy pencils, stockings, underwear, wrist watches, pillow cases, pyjamas. Lord Beaverbrook outfitted his canvassers with samples of boots, coats, pants and shoes, sent them west to show Welsh miners how they might clothe a whole family by reading the Express for eight weeks...
Officials announced that two national groups would present the next musical festivals at the Fair: the Welsh "Gymanfa Ganu" Sept. 2-4; a ballet from Prague, Czechoslovakia later in the month...
More to the taste of local Welsh coal miners who had gathered for the festival by hundreds, was Poet the Rev. Simon Bartholomew Jones, son of a Cardigan farmer. "I have six brothers." cried Poet Jones, "and every one is like myself a poet...
Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week. At Windsor Castle, Guardsman Harris of Edward of Wales's own Welsh Guards was court-martialed for falling asleep at his post while the King and Queen were in residence! "I felt ill, sir." said Guardsman .Harris, "and everything went black-like in front of me." At Buckingham Palace sneak thieves sneaked into the Royal Mews and stole from the hooks where it hung the solid gold bosses, buckles, and bangles that glitter on the scarlet leather harness of the eight horses that pull...
...father who watched from a palace window in a grey sack suit and panama hat, and took the salute at the traditional Trooping the Color on the King's birthday. All in scarlet & blue the Brigade of Guards marched stiffly past, Coldstreams, Grenadiers, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The Life Guards and the Blues rode by in their glittering breastplates, and at their ancient post of honor at the Right of the Line were the short, ribbed jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery. Three guardsmen fainted, were carried from the parade ground. Queen Mary watched the show from a Whitehall...