Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, during her first few years of marriage as Mme. Stokowska (she was very fussy about the Polish feminine ending), Gloria lived in relative obscurity...
Although he is made to glare at the ceiling too much, Sinatra otherwise acquits himself as a pretty fair actor. He gets to sing a few good songs (Just One of Those Things, Someone to Watch over Me), and turns them out with polish...
...died in Brooklyn last week and, by way of mourning, a $2,500 plater named Sunny Al was scratched in the eighth race at Tropical Park that afternoon. The former bootblack was Anthony Aste, 88, founder of the Griffin Manufacturing Co. (the world's largest makers of shoe polish) and owner of the old Ascot Stable. In six decades on the American turf, Sportsman Aste, "the King of the Bootblacks," had made his mark with a colorful personality and many a better horse than Sunny...
...Nothing. While still in school, Tony Aste, born in lower Manhattan, began shining shoes in the streets. Before he was old enough to vote, he was renting indoor space, putting stands in lobbies and aboard ferryboats, hiring other bootblacks. Dissatisfied with existing shoe polish, he hired a chemist to develop a new formula, and made his own-first for his stands and then for sale. He chose his trademark carefully. "I got the name out of a book," said Aste proudly. "A griffin is half-lion and half-eagle-king of the beasts and the birds...
...Yalta's broken promises was that postwar Poland would be a democracy with a popularly elected government. To keep up this hollow fiction, the Polish Communist Party insists that Poles vote for a preselected slate of Communist candidates. Last week, announcing the results of current elections, Radio Warsaw added a shocked comment: in some villages "less than one-half of those entitled to vote went to the polls," while in others "less than one-half the number of required councilors were elected." The Communist corrective: elections will be reheld and villagers forced to vote...