Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another pick-up was that of the Polish flyers, Kasimir Kubala and Louis Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec...
Dark as the inside of an empty wine cask and reeking with the same stale smells is a certain evil subterranean cafe in Warsaw. Last week Polish detectives surrounded silently, peered down and into the place expectantly. They saw M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein in strange traffic with some two score creatures whose air was furtive, smugglerous...
...classed as a mere creature, according to despatches, was M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein, who was recently employed by the Polish Government to appraise a shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons...
Last week, Polish and U. S. pilots complained. Poles, employed by the commercial Aerolot Co., demanded higher wages and, when their demands were refused, set a precedent for air pilots by going on strike. U. S. assistant pilots on the "model airway" between Los Angeles and San Francisco found their new duties beneath the dignity of flying men. Their duties: cooking and serving buffet luncheons for passengers, Pullman porter service for dusty topcoats and hats. They grumbled, did not strike...
Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...