Word: welshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas Edward Lawrence, 46, famed, mysterious War hero of Arabia; of injuries received in a motorcycle accident, caused when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like...
...more famed among Midwest bettors than Shaw is in New York. In 1924, when Black Gold won the Derby, Kearney and Shaw cornered the winter-book business by paying their losses while almost all their competitors, who had laid odds as high as 100-to-1, felt forced to "welsh." At Tom Kearney's office-a large room in the rear of a 20-by-25 ft. wood-paneled cigar store opposite the Jefferson Hotel where he lives-nine clerks handle his business at five long tables. When in good health, Tom Kearney spends most of his time behind...
When the curtain goes up at 8.30 o'clock tonight at Brattle Hall on the Welsh kitchen interior of Richard Hughes play "A Comedy of Good and Evil," it will mark both its American premier and the fiftieth production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Arthur Szathmary '37 will play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...
...other members of the cast are uproarious as the Welsh villagers, eager to learn about the miracle. The proof is final when Mrs. Resurrection Jones. who broke up her own funeral by tapping at her con lid, feels the leg and learns to her own disappointment that it's not one of those china things...