Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girls Go, Bobby Clark's new vehicle, puts him in the novel position of husband to the first woman president, but nevertheless the show fared badly at the hands of the reviewers. Minnie and Mr. Williams is a light bit of fancy involving a Welsh parson, his fluttery wife, and a devil named Gladys. Put Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling in this situation and you have a pretty good idea of what it's all about...
Golden Earrings. The beginning corner of the canvas of John's life was a town called Tenby, on the Welsh coast. His father was no gypsy, but a prosperous and eminently proper lawyer, who, John coolly recalls, "loved children, provided of course they were legitimate and well-behaved." His father appears frequently and ambiguously in John's autobiography. Having been in his own turn a father and a grandfather, John inclines to apologize for his own filial rebellions. His father's "pious admonitions," John confesses, "were met by indifference or even hostility. To this perverse and refractory...
...Editor Cudlipp was an office boy on a Welsh paper at 14, a London theater critic at 20. When Beaverbrook made him boss of his Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...
...Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground and To the Bitter End, a history of the German plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters. In End of a Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer warned that the Germans hoped to get even for defeat when the U.S. and Russia...
Probably most intriguing to the U.S. reader are the rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is having a lively cultural revival. Precisely why this nook of the world should be so awake when so many other parts of it are dozing will prove a neat problem for some future historian...