Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...
...Bernard Mannes Baruch, born Camden, S. C., in 1870. His father, Dr. Simon Baruch, a Spanish Jew, emigrated from Polish Russia, was a field surgeon in Lee's army. His mother was Isabel Wolfe, daughter of a widely respected cotton planter. Bernard entered commerce as a glassware clerk, studied law and medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared...
...this college flocked the sons of the rich, seeking the Harvard manner, the Harvard polish, and the Harvard voice...
BODY OF THIS DEATH-Louise Began -McBride ($1.50). A little too much technique-a careful straining for over-simplicity that defeats its own end. Enormous polish employed unimportantly-rigid, neat little effigies frozen in their tight molds. There are some lovely and successful lyrics among the 28 poems that compose the traditionally slender and beautifully printed volume, but they are rare. Perfect control in the rest, excellence of diction, frequent excellence of image and epithet, but nothing more. All the promise in the world, but Body of This Death has not been judged as promise but as performance...
General Josef Haller, Gommander-in-Chief of the Polish Army: "At West Point, I watched a basketball game between the Army and St. Francis College. 'Please send your basketball team to Poland,' said I. 'I enjoyed the game immensely...