Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps their new harmony song stuck in the throats of Messrs. Pew and Grundy. But Puddler Jim's Welsh tenor came crashing through. He sang triumphantly last week: "I am willing to be a candidate for re-election...
...knows how many millions of Beatrix Potter books have reached the world's children. But there are Peter Rabbits in French, German, Welsh, Spanish and Afrikaans. Sales of the small, standard Peter Rabbit book in the U.S. are still high (60,000 in 1943). Last week, as news of Beatrix Potter's death reached the U.S., an exhibition of Rabbitiana was on view in the Children's Room of the New York Public Library...
...Barbara are not on speaking terms. Joan, her Producer-Husband Walter Wanger and party entered and found Barbara and Actor-Husband Addison Randall. Then Tenor Morton Downey, ex-of Barbara, joined Joan and party. Barbara and husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey. As the pianist played Tales from the Vienna Woods and the violinist played Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', Randall threw...
Died. Elizabeth Monica Dashwood ("E. M. Delafield"), 52, witty British novelist ; in Cullompton, Devonshire, England. Sharp-faced, French-blooded daughter of Welsh gentry, she wrote nearly a score of books before she brewed the slightly bitter tea talk of her best-selling Diary of a Provincial Lady and its three popular sequels...
Food. Civilians scrambled madly for scraps tossed from trains by homebound prisoners. Nazi guards sometimes begged for contents of Red Cross parcels from home. Apart from such gifts, prisoners thought that they fared about as Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell...