Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome young man was an officer in the Imperial German Navy when war broke out. He was Count Alfred Niezyzhowski, known to the smarter Berlin set as "Al" or "Nizzy." He was not really a "Bosch,"but a fine gentleman from the Polish part of East Prussia; and his uncle, Baron Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador to the U. S., had long been the popular dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington...
...something unknown, but something that says in effect: "We hereby serve notice, by our enjoyment of this show, and what snap we've put into it, and the careful smoothness that we've tried to polish it with, and a number of other things that senile graduates wouldn't understand that this is just the first year's evidence that some modestly important things can be expected of the rejuvenated Pudding after it hits its stride...
Died. Jean de Reszké, 75, famed Polish tenor; in Nice, France, of heart disease (see Music...
Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...
...consequence of the settlement of the Upper Silesian question, Germany was ordered, by the League of Nations, last year, to pay to Poland the $1,500,000 which Polish Silesians had paid to the Berlin Government as premiums on compulsory social insurance. Germany did not object, but a reminder from the Polish Government in January that the amount was shortly falling due elicited this reply from Berlin : "Apply to S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric...