Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heavy rain prevented General Joseph Haller, the famous Polish general, and the group of Polish and American army officers who were accompanying him, from visiting the University yesterday as had been originally planned...
General Haller who was during the war, the commander in chief of the Polish forces in France, reached Boston yesterday morning after a tour of various cities in the middle west. It had originally been planned that General Haller should meet President Lowell in front of University Hall at 4.30 o'clock and then make a brief tour of inspection through the University...
...Sienkiewicz Polish...
...psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints...
When Robin Hood rapped a wealthy miser on the pate with his quarter-staff and removed his pouch, he usually gave the money, or a large share of it, to the poor. It is much the same beneficient, kindly spirit which pervades the soul of the famous Polish bandit, Mucha. Nothing the dismal condition of his country's finances, he has made out an inventory of his year's "swag", and sent the list plus the income tax upon the amount to the government...