Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader, told that this is supposed to be a history of the times, is baffled, but finding himself reading about a lonely aristocrat living in a remote Welsh backwater, through an art that is little short of magical, he slowly comes to understand and accept Augustine, with his pacifist, anarchist rationalism, as a type-figure of his English class and generation...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
...MARY E. WELSH West Hollywood, Calif...
...fantasy. His apotheosis was not long in coming. It occurred one night in September 1919, when an audience studded with Cabinet members and ambassadors jammed London's Covent Garden to hear Lowell Thomas lecture on Lawrence, the Uncrowned King of Arabia. It was a rousing occasion; the Welsh Guards played background music, and an Irish tenor rendered the Moslem call to prayer. The lecture, repeated round the world over the next four years by Commentator Thomas, was seen and heard by over a million. Lurking in the darkened rear of the auditorium on several occasions was Lawrence himself, blushing...
...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs under Eden (Nutting resigned in protest against Eden's decision to launch the catastrophic Suez adventure). According to Nutting, a key fact is that Lawrence was illegitimate. At the age of ten, Lawrence learned that his father was not the respectable Welsh gentleman he seemed, but Sir Thomas Robert Chapman, an Irish baronet who had left his wife and four daughters to run off with the children's Scottish nanny, Sara Maden. Assuming the name of Lawrence, the two proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second...