Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Mary Welsh was laid up with grippe, spent only the following: breakfast of bread and hot water to mix with Nescafe - 70 francs plus 100 francs tip to waiter who was not supposed to bring anything to rooms. Lunch without wine -350 francs. Dinner with half-bottle of wine -500 francs. Firewood for room in the evening-150 francs plus 100 francs tip (no tip, no wood). Telephone calls, newspapers, aspirin and tips to maid who smoothed bed and boy who brought paper handkerchiefs - 350 francs. Total for the day -1620 francs...
...TIME'S Miscellany researcher, who became confused in trying to read a plain Welsh sign correctly, is hereby excused...
Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...
...countrymen called him "L.G.," and there were many who would add "the man who won the last war." Three generations of his neighbors in Caernarvon village had known him as "the little Welsh wizard," still talked of him as a statesman in his prime. But David Lloyd George, 82 years old this month, realized that 54 straight years in Britain's House of Commons was enough, and said so. A grateful government rewarded him with an earldom...
...survivors of the British resistance movement were in their places. Aneurin Bevan, bearing the marks of torture [he had been captured while leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...