Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Born on a Tennessee farm of Scotch-Welsh parents, McGill worked his way through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going...
...Mary Welsh was in London for every one of its 400-odd air raids. Once a shell fragment sailed through the window of her Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front...
...Mary Welsh will visit her folks in Thief River Falls, Minnesota-and steal a short vacation with a Chippewa Chief named Kau-kau-kan who taught her to paddle a birchbark canoe when she was twelve. Before she goes back to London she will do a short stint in TIME'S editorial office here, to share her intimate, on-the-spot knowledge of Britain directly with our editors...
Colonel Henry Bowen, the founder of the family fortune, was a half-crazy, atheistic, marauding Welsh adventurer who abandoned his Puritan wife to take part in Cromwell's invasion of Ireland...