Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Eden was sipping his cocktail, Aneurin Bevan, Labor's handsome dynamo, was completing a tour of 40 polling places, in his Welsh mining constituency...
...Writing is easy," Welsh Novelist Richard Llewellyn once said. "You just go home and roll up your sleeves and it comes." This method, which might only bring gooseflesh to the ordinary arm, has produced a rash of virulently contagious novels from Llewellyn's. He first broke out in 1940 with How Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn...
...Conductor Munch says that his dog is an Irish Airedale, sometimes also known as a Welsh terrier (which is what TIME called him). Madame Munch says that Pompey is a pedigreed Airedale. TIME'S Boston correspondent says that the dog weighs a good 40 Ibs., is mostly grey, and is unlike the Airedales he grew up with...
Pride of the Welsh...
TIME [Dec. 12] calls Dylan Thomas an English poet. Though he writes in English, he is a Welshman, and we Welsh are proud...