Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...
Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...
Unique was the profession of a Polish woman which met its abrupt end last week. At a marriage ceremony in Grodno, North Poland, a priest asked his oft-repeated routine question, added "Let him speak now or forever hold his peace." A woman spoke, "The groom is not a man," she said. Investigation followed. The groom explained that it was her custom to dress as a man, marry wealthy women, get their money...