Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton obligingly called up his family in Pontrhydyfen and told them to look after his journalist friend, and in hospitable Welsh fashion they did. Burton had told him how "boys proved their manhood" in Pontrhydyfen by walking across a bridge on an inverted V railing over a 120-ft. gorge...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...
...Suffolk Superior Court jury has acquitted folksinger Jackie Washington on a charge of assault and battery of a police officer. The jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday after a three-day trial, and its sealed verdict was opened and read yesterday morning by Judge Robert A. Welsh...
Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition. It was, in short, picturesque but a tough place for Welshmen. Seen in retrospect by Welsh Novelist Jones, it remains determinedly picturesque but a hazardous place for novelists...
...Macaroni, the ponies, graze contentedly on the lush grass. Caroline's Welsh terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...