Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panther halfback Edgar ("Special Delivery") Jones, son of a Welsh coal miner. In the first quarter, Jones threw a daring 28-yard pass that set up one touchdown. In the last quarter, with the Rams trying desperately to tie the score, Jones intercepted a pass, streaked 30 yards for a second touchdown and a 13-to-0 victory that blasted Fordham's dreams of a Rose Bowl bid. It was the first time Fordham had failed to score since...
Blithe Spirit (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson). Last spring Noel Coward,* erasing the war from his mind, stole out of bomb-scarred London to a quiet Welsh country house and in five days tossed off an "improbable farce." At the same time, he pulled off a nearly impossible job. One stage ghost was usually a little more than even Shakespeare could handle; Coward has done handsomely with two. One sprightly stage joke usually gives a playwright a good first...
...Southern peewees will find tough competition in 14-year-old Francis Cravath Gibbs of Long Island. Young Gibbs owns 16-year-old Little Squire, the fabulous grey-white pony (half Welsh pony, half Irish thoroughbred) that has humbled America's best jumpers ever since he came to the U.S. with an Irish Army team in 1932. Once, at the Dublin Horse Show, Little Squire jumped...
...Cronin's novel, "The Stars Look Down." is a saga of simple working people. The English movie-version best film to enliven local screens in many a month-logically extends the implication of its subject-matter. From a timely oral prologue we learn that the Welsh coal-miners, whose lives are to be dug and coughed and hammered out before us, symbolize the guys-named-Joe "of every nationality and every calling, such as there are the whole world over...
...Corn is Green. Ethel Barrymore in a notable performance as pedagogical Pygmalion to a Welsh miner...