Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon to the concert of M. Paderewski came the Governor General, but found no Pole upon the platform. Nettled, His Excellency marched to his seat, stood frigidly awaiting some apology or amend from Pianist Paderewski who, just then, walked upon the stage...
...electric. Then Ignace Jan Paderewski sat down at his piano and strummed the golden notes which all the world can but listen to and applaud. Baron Stonehaven, vexed, sat down. Next day His Excellency released to the press a letter to M. Paderewski in which the great Pole was formally rebuked for "insulting His Majesty the King as represented in the person of His Excellency the Governor General...
...more than the normal interest in sex, Author Schnitzler supplies his characters with chances and dreams of a strictly erotic nature. A doctor's wife, after a ball, confesses to him how very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having an affair with a handsome Pole. The doctor confesses a similar experience, but harbors vindictiveness towards his wife. That night he lets himself in for an extensive series of sex frustrations culminating in his ejection at dawn from an aristocratic club of masked carnalists. When he returns, his wife relates a dream she has had wherein...
...impression on the theatre-going public. M. Stanislavsky and his players gave the sophisticated playgoer a tonic which did much to put new blood in his veins and awake him once more to the infinite possibilities of the drama well presented. The other group, pointing ostensibly toward the other pole of the theater, gave us a new sensation in the world of the review. The moon-faced and altogether rotund. M. Balieff, with his apparently broken English and thousand quips and merry sayings, presented his sequence of light-hearted acts in a manner new to the American stage. Little scenery...
...Pole...