Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance as an inquisitor specifically demonstrated other things...
...other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage mobs who jabber and shriek. Music caterwauls off stage. Puffed-up actors recite puffed-up dialogue. Around a table covered with brass pitchers and pottery the King and his counsellors gather, looking like Armenians about to polish off some shish kebab...
...deftly speared a slice of fricasseed chicken, Miss Wiman apologized for rushing. "But what can I do? They've called a rehearsal for two, and I've gotta be there. I guess they want to polish a couple of spots...
Most likely spot for a new Eastern European crisis-which many Europeans expect in the spring-is the Polish Ukraine. A good start has already been made toward developing the crisis-a series of border incidents. It is possible that Poland will some day become provoked enough to strike back hard. Then Führer Hitler would probably bluntly announce that he is responsible for the integrity of the Ruthenian borders. France would be reminded of the Polish-French Alliance and Soviet Russia, fearful of what might happen later to her own Ukraine, might be inclined to urge Polish resistance...
Practically all the time B-S-H bought was used for 15-and 30-minute dramatic serials spotted in the morning or afternoon to amuse housewives, and to push cereals, headache remedies, tooth paste, floor polish, cosmetics, etc. for 19 sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum...