Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artificial language they hoped to spread was invented by a patient Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, who published his work in 1887. His language looks like a Balkan patter, sounds like a Romance patois. Though it runs on rules like rails, it lends itself to precise shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there...
...George Schroeder of Michigan's House of Representatives spent five sociable hours at the home of the manager of Michigan's State prison farm. Guest of honor was Convict No. 39359, State Senator Anthony J. Wilkowski. Reason: Mr. Schroeder would like to be Lieutenant Governor, needs the Polish votes controlled by Convict Wilkowski, who is serving four to five years for fraudulent vote counting...
Pallid, big-boned, secretive Colonel Josef Beck, active Polish Foreign Minister who recently visited Sweden, then Estonia, was off again last week on another flying trip as advance agent for his proposed Eastern European Bloc. Idea of the Beck Bloc, it is rumored, is that all the little countries which lie in the area of a possible future war should form a neutral belt between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia, should appear at Geneva before the next League Assembly and secure officially for themselves a recognized neutrality status similar to that of Belgium. They would ask to be released from...
...over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling. Shortly, river transport on the Niemen will open...
Built and maintained by public subscription or private endowment, to train Scandinavian and Polish boys in seamanship, they carried from 80 to 100 youngsters on cruises on which the boys did all the work-"hand, reef, and steer, and keep the ship up." Because there were no able-bodied seamen aboard, the ships lay at anchor for the first part of the cruise, until the boys learned to handle them. Almost all the world's navies now train sailors on sailing vessels, but only in the Baltic countries are citizens interested enough to provide such training for the merchant...