Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civic Opera celebrated its tenth anniversary with a season that is already 90% sold out. Kelly's winning formula: high-quality productions with big-name singers and the best young talent available. Highlight of the company's new production of Macbeth last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice. Jones's appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long...
...Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...
...chase no longer has an easily identifiable horsy set. Distinguished old blueblooded hunting associations like the Quorn, which was organized 250 years ago, still flourish. But the 200 hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing the pace "grueling...
Though the average chase can cost a huntsman as much as $28, the low-income enthusiast finds ways to economize. The miners chase the fox on Welsh ponies rather than on horses. A complete hunting outfit, including horse and secondhand saddle, can be bought for as little as $300. The hunts raise money for the chases through bingo games and other events. One club even enables its members to pay their annual fees on a time plan...
Potential Fare. Thanks to Franey, the menu at any orange-topped Howard Johnson restaurant around the U.S. now includes Welsh rabbit, chicken stroganoff, veal scallopini, lamb curry and seafood thermidor. "We're upgrading gradually," says Franey. "You have to keep the average American in mind. But maybe some day we're going to serve caviar at Howard Johnson...