Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the whiskers of the Negus we will make a little brush to polish up the boots of Benito Mussolini...
...Harlow and his staff have not allowed the highly touted invaders to disturb their steady striving for polish and dash in execution of the rudiments of the game. Drill for speed was prominent yesterday, and no matter what the result is on Saturday, it is certain that the future will see a team showing persistent improvement in the game...
...sheriff found himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife...
...Marshal Julius Combos, Premier of Hungary. One morning last week the Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet chairman of the Polish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Prince Radziwill...
...under which, if Russia is attacked, Red planes will be able to operate from Czech bases within striking distance of Germany and Poland (TIME, May 27). The Rominten conference last week was tentative and ultra hush-hush, but Eastern European wiseacres assumed that on the fire was a German-Polish-Hungarian air pact sure to enrage Moscow and of fateful significance in Vienna, where Austria's government keeps wondering just how long it will be before Adolf Hitler begins throwing his weight about in the country of his birth, Austria...