Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miller's moustache retains its faded color. We wonder that he does not try shoe blacking or shoe polish, and thus give a dark shade to his upper...
...Record cast, which must inevitably reduce a paper to a very low state. We might signal N. L. D. as the most pleasing of the Courant's poets, although to the best of our knowledge he has written but a comparatively short time. There is a quality of polish about the work of this paper which is exceedingly pleasant, and, though it does not have the periods of brilliancy characteristic of some others, its sustained mediocrity makes it one of our best exchanges...
...answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once in Iceland's unhappy isle? What is the mystery of his existence...
...been the hobby among a certain class, consisting usually of dyspeptic men and old maids, to rail at the prevailing style of female apparel. Even in the frivolous times of James I. we find in a sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest as the hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery...
According to the latest statistics published, there are now 165 gymnasiums in Austria, frequented by 53, 142 pupils. In 95 of these schools the pupils are taught in the German idiom, in 33 in Zchech, and in 21 in Polish. Four of them are Italian, one is Ruthene, seven are Utraquist, and four are Serbo-Croat...