Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue are a good many other curious spellings, but they come from much too careless proof reading...
...Curwen, Eric Cutler and Frannie Powers did not survive the trials in the 100 and 440. Charlie Barker, of Ohio State, and Paul Wolf, of Southern California, tied for first in the century in 52.9, while Michigan's Tom Haynie won the quarter with his teammate, Jim Welsh second...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
...seven: Columbia Conserve Co.: Nunn-Bush Shoe Co.; Welsh Co. (St. Louis baby carriage manufacturer): Berkshire Knitting Mills; Northwest Metal Products Co.: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Western States Envelope...
...ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic country clinics. Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell head a fine cast, among whom Ralph Richardson as the cynical, rum-consuming Denny is outstanding...