Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Killed in Action. General Gaston Henri Gustave Billotte, 65, pre-war Military Governor of Paris, Commander of the First French Army in Flanders; in an auto accident while commanding his troops. Hugo Hesketh Hughes, 38, 2nd lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...
Died. Emma Goldman, 70, famed anarchist; after long illness; in Toronto. Deported from the U. S. to Russia in 1919 with her lover and fellow radical, Alexander Berkman, she soon quit Russia, roamed the world, married a Welsh coal miner, briefly revisited...
...Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole, North Andover Clifford E. Weihman Louise Brown, New York Joseph D. Welsh Helen Cronin, Milton Frederick G. Whoriskey Marjorie Griggs, Wellesley David Wise, Jr. Charlotte Mendelsohn, Brookline Atwood C. Wolf, Jr. Jayne Stevens, Boston William A. Wolfe Betty Joe Coffey, Smith Mark Yohalom Elsa Shore, Radcliffe Peter C. Zoophel Virginia Marston, Chestnut Hill
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...