Word: furbish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...builder. Published on Sunday only, News Of The World under Riddell management became a bulky budget of news from the British police courts. Maintaining only a small editorial staff of his own. Publisher Riddell drew the mass of his material from reporters on daily papers who were encouraged to furbish up their most sensational stories of the week and send them along to News Of The World's offices in Bouverie Street. It was not long before News Of The World was as common a phenomenon of the British Sunday morning as church bells. Full accounts of the nation...
...second was to abandon the Austrian Constitution and form a Fascist State on the Italian model. This would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito Mussolini. Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria Over All" coalition of the Christian Socialists, the Fascist Heimwehr and the Agrarian League with the half-hearted support of the Socialists. Last week Dollfuss met long & late with his Cabinet to make a choice. Within the Cabinet Vice-Chancellor Franz
...money talks, then "Smiles" easily takes the first place among the musical comedies of this year, for Mr Ziegfeld has dug deep into the family coffers to furbish his present opus with such a wealth of talent and personality as has not been seen on the Boston stage for many a year...