Word: polished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation. In heavily Catholic Massachusetts, the house of representatives in a protest resolution said that an invitation to Tito "would be an act of subservience." In predominantly Protestant Washington State, the state senate resolved that Tito's visit would be "a rebuff to the brave Hungarian and Polish people who are resisting Communist pressures." The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars took similar stands. Impressed by their mail. Congressmen in a petition urged President Eisenhower to keep Tito out. Wisconsin's Representative Alvin E. O'Konski even said he would consider resigning his seat...
Lincoln White, State Department press officer, said the Polish government has been invited to hold the economic talk in Washington and has accepted. He thought the negotiations would start soon. Other sources said the United States was ready to begin them early next week...
...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic Gérard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...
...amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy. In 1923 he traveled to the U.S. to see his publisher, whom he called Doubleday Effendi, was lavishly feted, but remained withdrawn. He died one year later, "a Polish gentleman soaked in British tar." Conrad himself best summed up his attitude toward his work in a letter...
FIGHTING WARSAW, by Stefan Korbonski (495 pp., Macmillan; $6.75), presents the memoirs of the last leader of the Polish underground, and for the first time fully tells the story of the thousands who died in a futile effort to free Poland. At first, the politically ill-assorted, mutually suspicious underground leaders fell easy prey to the Germans. The flamboyance of the rank and file who took to wearing "uniforms" of top boots and padded jackets also led to wholesale arrests. Yet out of blundering and indecision, the stubborn Poles whipped together perhaps the most potent underground fighting force in Europe...