Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Delegate, Foreign Minister August Zaleski, smugly remarked at this point: "My country's case seems to rest safe in stronger hands than mine...
...dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...Chairman of the Prairie Oil and Gas Co., whose previous chairman (James E. O'Neil) figured in the Oil Scandals and is still a fugitive from justice. Less familiar in the Kaw country would be Vincent Massey, the Canadian "Minister to the U. S.; Jan Ciechanowski, the Polish Minister; and the two Filipino leaders, Manuel Quezon and Pedro Guevara-all attending as observers...
...tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves fall off, to grow out desirably colored the next year, according to Herr Behr. The wood however can be immediately cut, polished, prepared for futuristic furniture and novelties. The dye brings out the grain, shows off the polish, lasts as long as the wood. For more conservative households beeches can turn to rosewood; yellow birches masquerade as mahogany...