Word: polished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hide away the full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...
...great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...
...When Polish War Minister Josef Pilsudski returned to Warsaw, last week, he and his police dog looked down from their railway compartment upon President Ignatz Moscicki, Prime Minister Kazimir Bartel & Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, and a round 100 bespangled generals and lesser military...
Charles Bernard Lipman's family was one of the relatively few Russian Jewish families permitted to live in Russia proper. (Most U. S. Jews who call themselves "Russian" were born in Polish or Lithuanian districts...
Irene Bordoni, actress, brought with her on the Ile de France a folding portable bar equipped with a sign: "Vote for Al Smith." A baby born at sea to a French mother and Polish father was christened Samuel (Kosman) in honor of famed mythical "Uncle Sam." Others on the Ile de France were Elsie Ferguson, Raymond Orteig, donor of the $25,000 Paris-New York flight prize which Hero Lindbergh captured, Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, who had trouble with the customs officials...