Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call the attention of the curious public to the fact that he had just, with commendable prevision, published the first of four parts of Ladislas St. Reymont's chief work. "Autumn, volume one of The Peasants," said Publisher Knopf some weeks ago, "would appear to be undoubtedly the greatest Polish novel of the Century." The award of the Nobel Prize goes far to support its publisher's pronunciamento...
...hustling young instructors of business administration have rigged up great bulletin boards, on which are posted at regular intervals, commendable--we suppose--samples of advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages...
...debt to the U. S. Poland's action makes her the fifth nation to fund her debt to us: first, England did so, then Hungary, Lithuania, Finland. Except for England, however, all our major debtors have failed to arrange to pay-France, Italy, Belgium, for example. The Polish debt is comparatively small-only $178,000,000. It was funded on terms very similar to the British settlement, payments over 60 years...
...operator, actor, rail employe, farm hand, Paulist novice. He wrote his first short story, The Death, in 1894. He is now working on a cycle of six novels, of which one will have its setting in the U. S., whither he came in 1919 to study the life of Polish peasants who had emigrated...
...Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish...