Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
Henry Cotton has the clothes and polish of a Mayfair blade, the build and complexion of a matador. Most serious of British professionals, he is nervous and temperamental. He offends associates by his indifference to P. G. A. edicts and his frank money-making zeal. On the course he is apt to tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper...
...infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides...
...Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George's Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England...
...most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical to George & Jock in composition was a study called The Polish Rider, showing a longhaired man in a knitted cap & muffler walking a chunky horse over snowy fields...