Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferdinand Magellan went around the world in three years. Today, aviators are planning to do the deed in 15 days. But two Polish young men-Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight...
Raki. The Turkish Government decided to sell an alcoholic drink called "people's raki," despite the fact that Mohammedanism, to which religion the bulk of the Turkish nation belongs, prohibits intoxicating beverages. A concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey...
...cook's daughter as her son's wife? Perhaps the fact that the son's firmness matches the mother's is responsible for her approval. Perhaps she is simply a realist. In any case, she takes Lena Wilson to Manhattan with her for a winter of theatres, shopping and "polish" in general. Lena goes to the Princeton commencement and then the scene is set for a wedding at Grande Anse...
...hundred U. S. citizens of Polish blood arrived in Warsaw last week and were received in audience by the "National Hero" and "Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...trice the powerful right arm of Marshal Pilsudski had raised up Mile. Janusewska. Having saluted her with respectful gallantry, he turned to the other pilgrims. "I myself will finish the beautiful speech of this young lady. I know that you greet me in the name of all Polish-Americans. I welcome you here and I ask you to kiss all your friends, when you return, both Polish and American, in behalf of the land of Poland...