Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning...
...Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year's Woman, "kindly name it Wallis?" During 1937 the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin on which King Edward and Mrs. Simpson cruised was bought by King Carol of Rumania for his henna-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, who many a Rumanian...
There are 60,205 native Welsh in the U. S.; 87,482 U. S. Welsh of pure or mixed parentage. The majority have settled in industrial regions, nearly half in the smaller towns of Pennsylvania, many more in neighboring Ohio, West Virginia and New York. Many are mill workers, weavers, miners. Most of them sing. Put four or more together and you have a chorus dedicated to the ancient music and tongue of Cambria. Put two or more choruses together, egg them into competition, and you have what is known as an eisteddfod...
...eisteddfod (pronounced "eye-steth-fod") causes more stir in Wales than a heavyweight championship fight in the U. S. Wales' great annual eisteddfod is held in August, attracts every Welshman's attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...