Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a new pair of ravens, Cora & Corax, the gift of a Welsh farmer, arrived at the Tower. With their wings clipped and their feathers preened, they will make their public debut this week...
...heard. Every Sunday his congregation* at the chaste, red brick, All Souls' Unitarian Church overflows from the church auditorium into adjacent halls and recreation rooms. Reason: his 35-minute sermons are protein-rich with wit, wisdom, sincerity and invective. His preaching has made Welsh-born Powell Davies one of America's outstanding liberal clergymen...
...piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take care of a burglar by jujitsu. Some times he sparred a few rounds with Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr. But since then, U.S. audiences have had few opportunities to watch his flying fingers and applaud his romantic 19th-Century music...
...Lafayette, Colo., a thin, recently tuberculous young doctor from Pennsylvania hung up his shingle above the general store one day in December, 1900. Lafayette (pop. 900) was a rough-&-ready coal-mining town. Dr. Victor Welsh Porter gave it rough-&-ready medicine...
Last week, after the festival, scores of the unemployed in Mountain Ash milled around on the sidewalks before their grimy, gloomy houses. There they listened to a four-piece band of disabled miners playing no fine old Welsh airs, but Money Is the Root of All Evil...