Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could and very well might chase them from Warsaw, united in a desperate attempt to force Marshal Pilsudski into the open and voted what amounted to "no confidence...
Poland, Chile and Rumania were elected for three years, the Polish seat being made renewable. Colombia, Holland and China were elected for two years; and Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Salvador were elected for one year. Thus the League Council will consist next year of these nine states and the permanently seated powers: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan...
From Warsaw, without announcing what college he would attend, came one John Tichy, brought over by a foundation in memory of Brigadier-General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko,* able Polish ally of the revolutionary U. S. colonists, George Washington's adjutant...
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars...
...unto one John Kostva, Polish senator and Lord of Zakroczym was born a manchild, the second of seven babes. Six had the innocent mien common to all infants, but Stanislas' round countenance shone with a piety known only to cherubim and seraphim. He grew up, studied at Vienna, there early displayed beatific proficiency. Said his brother Paul: "He devoted himself to spiritual things so completely that he frequently became unconscious. . . . This happened at home to my brother when he was seated at the table. . . ." Then Paul, vexed, maltreated Stanislas who answered, "Your rough treatment will end in my going...