Word: welshmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...irate Scotsmen, Welshmen and Irishmen occasionally point out, ''There are no such persons in existence as the King and Queen of England"-i.e., they are King and Queen of the United Kingdom. The last Sovereign of England was Queen Elizabeth, who died...
...popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three "Prince of Wales" feathers from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, as new emblems designed by the College of Arms were submitted for the approval of King Edward...
Chrysler's male choir, the most up & coming group, owes its existence to little Tom Lewis, a bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis...
Attentive Welshmen gathering last week in Wrexham for the national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement...
...Welshmen were full of praise last week for William George, brother of David Lloyd George.* Flaying the British Broadcasting Corp. as a "language dumper, William George hotly declared, Like an eternal distillery it is distilling English, English English all the time. We demand broadcasts in Welsh!" Though fluent in Welsh David Lloyd George sorely vexes his brother William George by broadcasting exclusively in English...