Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain of the military seizure demanded by Armed Poland. When finally tracked down by reporters, the Marshal was discovered in superintendence of secret maneuvres by the poison gas corps...
...umpire glanced to the right where a huge man in the uniform of a General of the Polish army stood bareheaded in the rain...
...watched him bring his lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there...
Good and Naughty (Pola Negri). The Polish star is obviously hungry for stories. In this one the plot splits early and falls apart, leaving only the most obvious recourse to door-slamming society slapstick. Miss Negri impersonates a young feminine assistant in an architect's office. Her duty in life seems to be to save one of the junior partners from an unworthy alliance with a married woman. Later the story shifts to Florida and farce runs wild. Miss Negri is less at home with heedless humor than she is with the hot cyclones of emotion...
Lithuanian troops busied themselves last week in expelling across their border a detachment of Polish frontier guards who had wandered into Lithuania while celebrating with valiant potations the Pilsudski coup. (TIME, May 24 et seq., POLAND...