Word: polished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There she met a Polish artist, Count Markievicz. He was attracted perhaps by her pale, fragile beauty, perhaps by the twinkling fire in her blue eyes. They married?Irishwoman and Pole?uniting in a miniature alliance the characteristics of their irrepressible, astounding peoples...
...restless, primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...
...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...
Observers thought it certain that Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski must have obtained strong assurances of support from France and Britain. This he did, presumably, at one of the secret sessions last week of the Council of the League of Nations...
...until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...