Word: welshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
Although keeping four Scottish homes, Lord Bute and ancestors have long concentrated their financial interests in Welsh coal mines, which now pay about $545,000 a year and for which the Government will give $10,000,000 when they are nationalized. To handle the coal, the Crichton-Stuarts built most of Cardiff's enormous docks. But even more lucrative of late have been the family's vast Cardiff real-estate holdings, from which $750,000 yearly in long-term leases was gleaned. Docks and real estate were both included in the sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping...
...corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen...
...program will be: Harvard Hymn, by Paine; Student Songs of the Seventeenth Century, by Schein; Supplicationes, Palestrina; Psaume 121, by Milhaud; Gently Johnny, English Folk Song; Tarantella, by Randall Thompson; Men of Harlech, Welsh Folk Song; Libeslieder, by Brahms; Canon; O Du Eselhafter Martin, by Mozart; Choruses from the Yeoman of the Guard, Sullivan...
Reader Texel knows more about the Constitution than about Lewis' life. John Lewis was born Feb. 12, 1880 in Lucas, Iowa, son of a Welsh immigrant (TIME...