Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...Briand, sitting up in bed, reputedly told Dr. Stresemann with great vehemence that France will not hasten her evacuation of the Rhineland until Germany carries out more fully her disarmament obligations (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). Dr Stresemann offered to produce photographs showing the destruction of German fortifications along the Polish frontier; but returned an evasive answer when M. Briand insisted that a French military commission be allowed to investigate the destroyed defenses in question...
...Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland, and never was such protection more needed than last week, when Russo-Polish strife hung in the air. Shelved. The Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon the nearly barren report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Dr. Stresemann commented tartly upon this report last week. Said...
...newspapers frankly condoned the murder. At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...
...Polish Government officially despatched a note of similar tone to the Soviet Government. What would Moscow reply...