Word: furbish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform. This will be their tenth convention...
...world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...