Word: polisher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody...
...here again one has to deal with highly cultured elements which are unwilling to accept oppression without remonstrance. Leaving aside the German element in Alsace-Lorraine, which is largely French in sentiment, the most important German minorities are those in southern Tyrol, under Italian domination, in Czecho-slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests of minorities. Practically all the states of eastern Europe, except Russia, are bound by agreements to accord these subject peoples...
...counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...
...moment, the least serious of the two cases is that of Danzig. The Treaty of Versailles established this Free City under the guardianship of the League of Nations. Poland has been trying, not unsuccessfully, to make Danzig Polish in everything but name. Poland objected to Danzig's signing the Kellogg treaty, and in the interests of keeping peace at his great peace party, Mr. Kellogg agreed that Danzig should not be invited. Diplomats who weigh fine points can and will interpret that as a U. S. acknowledgment of Poland's authority over Danzig...
That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...