Word: polished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia's relations with Europe, and the Polish problem under Alexander II," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...Russia's relations with Europe, and the Polish problem under Alexander H." Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...assertion that her expenses in the U. S. will be defrayed by rich Mrs. William B. Leeds, the onetime Princess Xenia of Russia, now sojourning in the fashionable West Indies. Finally, observers recalled that Berlin police detectives long ago satisfied themselves that the young woman is Franziska Schanzkowski, a Polish peasant, born on the sixteenth of December 1896, at Borowielass in Pomerania...
...honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary Garden; and, lastly, for all good dancing men to come to the aid of the party...
...young Paderewski had little in his favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...