Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet Congressmen shook their fists at the diplomatic box last week when the German and the Polish charges d'affaires remained seated as Bolsheviks rose and burst into the Internationale. Afterwards German Charge d'affaires Dr. Fritz von Twardowski snapped: ''I had no right to participate in a demonstration for or against Stalin or any other Soviet leader. I consider my failure to rise fully justified in that the Red anthem was sung not as a part of the formal program of the Congress but as part of an ovation for Herr Stalin...
...Smeterlin, Polish pianist, is to give a recital at Jordan Hall on Friday, February first; his program consists of selections from Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Mischa Elman, noted violinist, will give a recital at Symphony Hall on February seventeenth...
Marcella Sembrich was 76 when she died. She said her operatic farewell at 50 when her voice was still young, clear, phenomenally high. But at 50 Sembrich had already lived a long life as a public performer. Her Polish father, one of a tanner's 14 children, left a military band to marry. Sembrich, christened Praxede Marcelline Kochanska, was plopped up on a piano bench at the age of four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother...
There are things that might be more easily taxed than burials. Why not begin with a 500% tax on Mr. Foss's necktie and a 1,000% tax on the shoe polish he consumes and 2,500% tax on the value of the church he attends...
...victory, what foreign victory can it ever win? To the disgust of millions of Germans, Der Führer has not kept his campaign promises openly to rupture the Treaty of Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany's bag, should vote next week to remain under League trusteeship or to join France, the blow to Nazi prestige inside Germany would be titanic...