Word: paderewski
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...fortnight ago, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist and onetime (1919) Premier of Poland, was lured to Salisbury Square, London, where is situate the Press Club. In this building, whose walls have heard many a famed man, M. Paderewski opened his speech on Poland by telling the well-known "elephant story...
...Paderewski retold the story delightfully with one or two minor variations, such as the Englishman taking his biscuits, his port wine and his pipes. He said he was going to follow his compatriot and discuss the Polish question- but without including the elephant...
...Buckingham went Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist-composer and quondam Premier of Poland. From Buckingham Palace came Sir Ignace Jan Paderewski, Knight Grand Cross of the Eminent Order of the British Empire...
...other women's exhibitions, a note of apology. The most impressive work in painting and drawing was a portrait study in oil and several charcoal heads by Cecilia Beaux, "dean of feminists in Art";* in sculpture, by Malvina Hoffman, who took a prize with her bust of Paderewski...
Next day, he went to the Vatican, called on Pope Pius. For more than an hour, in private audience the two reminisced about the days when they met in Warsaw, the Pontiff as Nuncio, Paderewski as Premier of Poland, both facing a situation black as the pit, from Pole to Pole...