Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eton and Oxford man, Keynes represented the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919. With prophetic foreboding he walked out on the Conference, wrote his scathing The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which made him famous overnight. He called Lloyd George a "Welsh witch," and Woodrow Wilson a "nonconformist minister . . . [whose] mind was slow and unadaptable." Most of what he predicted came true and people began calling him Cassandra...
...first story it is cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
...John H. Welsh Jr., for a study of the metabolism of acetylcholine, undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine (undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine), in the invertebrates to the so-called "higher animals...
...Only Jim Welsh of Michigan and possibly his teammate, Jack Patten, can be rated above the Crimson captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...
...would be a natural dog-cat-dog battle for 220 supremacy if Powers and Welsh were to meet in the annual N.C.A.A. meet which is being staged at East Lansing, Michigan on March 28 and 29, but at the present time it doesn't look as though anything of the kind is going to come...