Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents of Hoffa-controlled Teamster locals in and around Detroit include Larry Welsh (convicted of sodomy), Zigmont Snyder (twice convicted of armed robbery) and Jimmy Hoffa's older brother, William (convicted of assault and carrying concealed weapons...
...regiments that make up the Brigade of Guards. The others: the Grenadier, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards...
...ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
...poetic lines--an area in which the company as a whole is weak. This is not to say that the writing in the play lacks interest; far from it. The text is a rich mine of various kinds of lower-class Elizabethan speech, including laughable treatments of French and Welsh dialects. It is filled with captivating puns, doubles ententes, and novel images; and it constitutes a veritable dictionary of original invectives, insults, and expletives...
Among the newcomers, the Welsh parson Evans, who "makes fritters of English," comes off well in the hands of Richard Waring. And Morris Carnovsky is marvelously crotchety as Caius, the French physician, who is normally "abusing of God's patience and the King's English." Carnovsky has introduced some side-splitting bits with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year...