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Word: welshwomen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poor Mr. Crick has amply proved that he has no flair for names of 58 letters and longer. Local Welshmen and Welshwomen have been getting each other's mail, and opening some of it, too. In despair, last week, Postmaster Crick resigned and enlisted in the Navy. Therefore Sir William Mitchell Thomson, His Majesty's Postmaster General, was earnestly besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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