Word: welshed
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There were dogs as large as Welsh ponies; of one particular Newfoundland, an announcer said, "A pleasant giant and a wonderful dog for those fortunate enough to have the space." There were dogs so inconsequential in size they were scarcely bigger than the word dog. There were dogs with names as long as a snake, and with a similar disposition. There were hair balls all over the floor. There was no mange...
...word "Celtic" is a real problem. I don't believe there is a Celtic so much as an Irish tradition. 'Celtic' makes the topic seem very remote and isolated, while Irish, Scottish or Welsh relate more personally to someone who might be flipping through a course catalogue, O Coilean says, "'Celtic' relates more to a basketball team...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
...rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains of a Welsh rugby song...
...throwing away his theater career," said Gielgud last week. Burton's friends had been telling him that for years. It was advice he did not want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left. -By Gerald Clarke