Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-blockade days, not quite so many Germans had "disappeared." The curfew for the Soviet sector had been set back from 11 p.m. to midnight. Hungarian melons, Bulgarian grapes, Polish cranberries appeared in the markets...
...Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
...acting was very good. Helen Drohocka, as the phlegmatic women doctor, and Wanda Bertowna, as the pretty interpreter, led the east. But the picture was a group effort, as far as the acting went, and no single performance dwarfed any of the others. Certainly from the ranks of the Polish actors in this film will come some of the top artists in the foreign film business during the next few years...
...Polish movies are rare things in Boston and no people can tell better than the Poles the accounts of German atrocities in the last war. You won't be able to pick up much of the Polish parts in the dialogue, but even without the words you'll be able to feel the strong sentiments of pathos and tragedy that mark such a universally odious subject...
Last year the group was amateur and called professional. This year it is professional and called first class for imagination, polish, and skill, but especially for imagination...