Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongest appeal to the country. The two Socialists are still poles apart on domestic issues (e.g., further nationalization, of which the Bevanites make a fetish), and Bevan is still out to win over the party from the Attlee regime, any way he can. But Attlee has pushed the thunderous Welshman right off his own front porch...
...Alfred Adler, had rebelled against the Freudian tenets. In this crisis, six loyal disciples solemnly undertook to uphold the straight gospel, and to each, Freud presented a jewel. That was in 1912, and of the select six, only one survives: Ernest Jones, 74, a spry, Homburg-hatted little Welshman* whom Freud called the greatest psychoanalyst in the English-speaking world...
...Communist general secretary of Britain's non-Communist coal miners' union is a twittery little Welshman named Arthur Horner. At 12 he was a wobbler (the boy who lathers customers' faces in barbershops); in his teens, he was a Baptist preacher, calling on the coalowners to repent of their "anti-working-class sins" before it was too late. In & out of jail, "Li'l Arthur" Horner worked wonders for the miners, and they loved him for it. Most of them thought he was simply daft when he announced, in 1947, that "if there were a possibility...
Dylan Marlais Thomas, 38, is a chubby, bulb-nosed little Welshman with green eyes, a generally untidy air, and the finest lyrical talent of any poet under 40. When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a wild Welsh dithyramb in which truth and fact become hopelessly smothered in boozy invention. He borrows with no thought of returning what is lent, seldom shows up on time, is a trial to his friends and a worry to his family. But let him sit down...
...Welshman and a Polynesian noblewoman, Dr. Davis went to New Zealand when he was eleven. He got his M.D. in 1943, was a house surgeon in Auckland, practiced psychiatry in Dunedin and studied tropical medicine in Sydney before he went back to the Cook Islands with his New Zealand wife. There he found only eight health workers, none of them medical graduates, to care for 16,000 people on 15 islands. scattered over 300,000 square miles of the Pacific...