Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Gibson introduced the new member to the 32 members of T. U. C.'s General Council with wisecracks. Example: "This is Tom O'Brien, an Irishman masquerading as a Welshman." When the Queen's ear caught the accent of Miner Will Lawther she chimed in: "What part of the north do you come from...
...nationwide strike of 1,500,000 construction laborers. The issue was a threepence-an-hour wage increase. If the strike motion carried, it might mean the end of the peaceful building of the common man's Britain. After four hours of argument a 48-year-old grey-haired Welshman named Owen Jenkins stood up. Owen Jenkins said he had two sons in the service. "Could I face my boys if they came back, looked me in the eyes and said to me: 'You voted for a strike while we were defending our country...
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...
...miles), he had posted the second fastest time in its history, only one-fifth of a second slower than the record (9 min., 20| sec.) set by Golden Miller in 1934. "It was like riding in a wheel chair," said Jockey Marvin Jones, a 20-year-old Welshman who had never seen the awesome Aintree course before, had been given 48 hours leave from his duties in the Royal Air Force to ride for Lord Stalbridge, whose regular jockey fell...
Governor Phillips' first Legislature gave him a "quarterly estimate law." His budget officer, R. R. Owens, a white-topped, soft-answering little Welshman, combs through estimates submitted in advance each quarter, snips off dollars here and there. The two pinchfists, old fighters for economy in government, specialize in slashing salaries. The Senate had given up to "Big Red" its jealously hoarded powers, let him fire appointees pointblank. With these weapons, the Governor...