Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once put an ad in a newspaper: "Wanted: young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
Conductor Ifor Jones, 46, a Welshman who was once a Manhattan church organist, had rehearsed his choir of housewives, mill workers and college professors three times a week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one of the choir's 39 Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy...
...system of covetousness?" In time such doubts were to spread through the Rappite harmony - but not for many years. Meantime Rapp had taken his flock to greener pastures in Economy, Pa. In May, 1824, Harmony, Indiana, was sold lock, stock & angel's footprint to a dreamy Welshman, Robert Owen, who believed in happiness, love and government without punishment...
First to go was tall, flamboyant socialist Frank Owen, 39, a "Sudeten Welshman" and at 23 a Member of Parliament, who was drafted in the midst of arguing loudly for a Second Front. In Manhattan last week, now a major on Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff, he admitted what everyone long suspected, that he was through with the Standard...
Born in Manchester (where his schoolmaster-father happened to be teaching), David Lloyd George was nonetheless first, last & always a Welshman. He grew up in North Wales without ever attending either public school or university, but never appeared to be much troubled by the lack. At 21 he became a solicitor without ceremony (he could not afford three guineas for the customary robes...