Word: pilsudska
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...parks, playgrounds, lawns, vacant lots. The rich rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers to dig in the lawn, avoiding the flower beds...
Alexandra Sczerbinska Pilsudska is the second wife of Poland's swashbuckling Marshal and benevolent Dictator, Josef Pilsudski...
Since the stirring days when Pilsudski was engaged in clandestine Socialist activities, he has been assisted by the present Madame Pilsudska, a woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...present Mme. Pilsudska dwells principally at rural Sulejowek, 12 miles from Warsaw, where she provides a quiet soothing refuge to which her harassed and moody husband often flees. With her young daughters, Wanda and Hedwig, she assists the Marshal to prune his apple trees and tend his bees...
...could dance the Boston? That was what the guests of Mme. Pilsudska wanted to know. Already the fiddles were beginning; the gentlemen, in the order of a fashion lost in the U. S., and in some parts of Europe, but maintained here in the core of Warsaw society, were crossing the ballroom of the Merchants' Club to choose their partners. It was an exhilarating moment, four o'clock in the morning, the beginning of the Boston at this party given by Mme. Pilsudska, wife of Marshal Pilsudski, the "Dictator." A handsome youth was introduced to the wife...
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