Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This in itself is no startling innovation; there have been before, and there are now, many theatres in many cities where the dramatic talent of foreign nations is produced in all its original beauty. New York has its Jewish theatres, its Polish theatres, its Greek theatres; and even Boston itself, that part of the universe which is vulgarly imagined to move the slowest, has its own producing companies of Chinese. Mr. Van Dycke has instituted a reform of far more universal significance; if he is successful, his name will go ringing down the centuries coupled with those of Garibaldi...
...greatest engineering feats of modern times, picked by Ralph Modjeski, famed Polish civil engineer, and son of Helena Modjeska, the tragedienne (Popular Science Monthly, June), include two canals, two bridges, and two dams...
...What Senator was so short that he had his seat and automobile altered to fit him?The late Senator Knox, colleague of Penrose. "Who was the only man who ever took off his coat in the House of Representatives??Elisha Adams Morse, manufacturer of shoe polish, who took off his coat while making a speech, was admonished by Speaker Reed, and put it on again; no one has done it since...
Friday, evening in Stelnert Hall, a first recital here by Fela Rybier, Polish planiste. Her program includes. Toccata and Fugue, Buch-Tausig; Pastorale and Capriccio, Scarialti-Tausing; "Scenes from Childhood", Schumann; "Elegle",Rachmanioff; a Nocturne for left hand alone by Scriabin and "Spanish Rhapsody" by Liszt...
...Sabatini has quite naturally developed some degree of standardization. And while form some points of view this may be highly desirable, if adds little to the interest or individual perfection of his later novels. He cannot, it seems, fail to tell a good story, but the smoothness and polish of "Scaramouche" and "Captain Blood" are noticeably lacking in "Mistress Wilding". It is true that the hesitation with which the story begins hesitation, that is in point of style rather than in action--gradually wears off as the author warms to his work; but at first, one is inclined to attribute...