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Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...
Great Raftery came upon Hilaria, a small Spanish woman, and he making a poem at the Galway dockside one sun down. The Welshman Daffyd Evans of Claregalway passed like another shadow between Raftery and the sun when Hilaria, who one night sang a song of the harlots of Cadiz, said she was of the Welshman's house. Being blind, Raftery knew more than she sang...
Raftery and Hilaria were married, with a street woman and a beggar to witness; and Raftery spared the Welshman of his dagger when the cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...
...Born a Welshman...