Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jagged Edges. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled; and the secret training of young men for military service has not entirely ceased.) The Allied Council of Ambassadors, administering the Versailles Treaty, telegraphed M. Briand at Geneva that they would only indorse the substitution of League control for military control if the German Foreign Minister would give positive assurance...
...Widener Library this week. The diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...
...post-war U. S. of the '70s came one Jacob Dreicer, young pop-eyed Polish Jew, his ear-locks but recently sheared off his pious head. A sterner immigration guard would have suspected him of exopthalmic goitre. As it was, no difficulties were made against his landing at the Battery...
...pearls; liked to caress them against his cheek. He knew where he could get them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara, and Tiflis and Bagdad; traded them to Jews for prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only the jangling of diamonds. Jacob Dreicer rented a basement room, sorted his pearls, graded them, matched them...
...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...