Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of official languages must also come up, and that is a point on which the small nations are insistent German, French, Spanish Italian and Polish are the languages spoken by the largest number of individuals. Presumably, Hungarians and Bulgarians and Latvians, if they wished to influence their colleagues, would have to address the houses in some language that is not understood in their own bailiwick...
Baldish, sharp-nosed and Polish was the nice gentleman, Foreign Minister August Zaleski. He was in Bucharest, last week, to keep warm negotiations which have long been simmering toward a Rumanian-Polish treaty of friendship and arbitration. From Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski of Poland he brought to King Mihai some brightly painted wooden toys; a railway train (considerably inferior to last year's); a big book of Polish fairy tales, The Story of the Dwarfs and the Little Orphans, translated into English-the language Mihai most easily reads, usually talks...
...Nothing . . . nothing but hunger . . . terrible hunger," replies Whisk, with stark Polish realism. "I was hungry . . . and so poor . . . my children were dying of hunger...
Tenderhearted, King Mihai, doubtless approved the end of the story, when King Gleamlet breaks down, sobs aloud in Polish pity, and orders: "Release that unhappy creature [rat] and feed his family...
...Pulaski wanted to revolt against the tyranny of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and it was through his addresses to the Polish people that idea of freedom and independence came in America...