Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces of the stodgy, soot-laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...
...marked out last week by old moss-covered stones in a cool oak-shaded glade just outside Mountain Ash. They heard the venerable Arch Druid (Congregationalist Minister Crwys Williams) open the six-day festival with the traditional words, "A oes heddwch-Is it peace?" The voices of 11,000 Welsh miners and farmers cried an answering "Heddwch!" The Arch Druid smiled, murmured "I think they heard that even in Paris...
Elizabeth had come from London to give royal blessings to Eisteddfod-and to deliver a thinly veiled message from Britain's coal-hungry Ministry of Mines. Graciously she paid tribute to the Welsh miner, but gently, plainly prodded him: "His name is . . . a symbol of tenacity and achievement. Never before have so many looked to him for those qualities as today...
Neither these words of the Princess nor the cheers of the bards carried beyond the cool forest glade. With striking unanimity, the whole Welsh press snubbed the Princess by publishing not a line of her plea. The Welsh were convinced that a Government program to improve working conditions in the pits will get miners back to work faster than a pep talk from a princess...
...Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...