Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PINKERTON FINDS A BODY-David Frome-Farrar & Rim hart ($2). Shy Welshman Pinkerton goes trustingly about Oxford; finds himself suspected of murder. Rescued by Yard's Inspector Bull, Pinkerton reveals the necessary clue...
...back of David Lloyd George's mind there are heroes and villains, and he speaks his mind. Canny Welshman, he bided his time until most of his enemies had spoken theirs. This third (but not last) volume of his War Memoirs, like the first and second, is both a rebuttal and an attack. His worst enemies never doubted he was able, but Lloyd George still has the point, of view of an unreconstructed pre-War statesman. He still believes the Allies won the War. He still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister...
When Davies, a Welshman, and Cameron, a Scotsman, were artillery officers in France they discussed the strange nature of the English. Davies was a publisher in civil life; he suggested that Cameron do a Scot's-eye-view book on the subject. When they met again, in peacetime London, where Cameron was starting in as a journalist, Davies reminded Cameron of the idea and he began collecting material. The more he got, the more confused he became. He played in a wild cricket match with his brilliant literary acquaintances, made one of an incongruous crowd of guests...
...rather a new thing when members of the House of Lords begin to threaten members of the Commons [with] two years in jail!" shouted the Welshman, and he rehashed his dispute with Sir Robert Home as to what they both said at Cabinet sessions in 1922 (when Sir Robert was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Lloyd George was Prime Minister) about the terms on which Great Britain could agree to fund her War debt to the U. S.-an operation subsequently performed by Stanley Baldwin after the Lloyd George Cabinet's fall (TIME, April...
...forward with the announcement that "a thousand people" might have wanted to kill her swashbuckling husband. She told of his recently fighting with a visitor at their apartment. She said she only knew the man as "Guy" but she produced a photograph of him. Day later police located a Welshman named William James Guy, 24, in a shack in the Los Angeles River bottoms. He admitted he "hated Wanderwell" because the Captain had once left him and his wife "on the beach" in Panama in the course of a Wanderwell tour. He also admitted illegal entry into...