Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of the Admiralty. Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet. With charm and polish, Admiralty officials said that they "really did not know" the whereabouts of Britain's famed super-warboats, the Hood, the Rodney and the Nelson...
...Balt!" and was indeed born near the Baltic Sea. Emotional, he edits Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter. In politics his principal idea is the "Rosenberg Plan" under which Germany and Poland would make war on Russia, both seizing great hunks of Soviet territory and Germany receiving the Polish Corridor as a gift from her grateful and victorious ally. As an inkling of what will soon be taught, Dr. Rosenberg announced officially last week in the organ of the Hitler Youth...
...soap bubbles in the sunshine, 13 gas bags from seven nations drifted up from Warsaw one afternoon last week in the 23rd annual International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race. Last away was Polonia of Poland, winning nation in 1933 and 1934. Wise in the ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they floated unreported toward...
...make the victory even more emphatic, another Polish entry won second place. Far in the ruck was the lone U. S. balloon which met adverse winds, staggered to a stop only 520 miles from the start...
Appropriately, when onetime Socialist Polish Deputy Stanislaus Dubois led an anti-Fascist mob against the Italian Embassy in Warsaw last week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall...