Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allison, is the biography of my great grandfather, John Jacob Lehmanowsky, general under Marshal Ney, member of Napoleon's intimate circle, close friend of the Marquis de La Fayette of Revolutionary War fame. Loving France, the country of his mother (his father a member of a Polish family able to trace its lineage back through many generations), John J. Lehmanowsky, after an extensive education in Poland journeyed to France and immediately became embroiled in the turbulent affairs of the country. He decided to support Napoleon and rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming one of his most trusted generals. Thrown...
...brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight ahead. Next winter, she will live in Buckinghamshire...
...dairymen made least happy by the State scale and the summer's drought were a pair of brothers named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their...
Meanwhile in Warsaw, Polish Shotputter Zygmunt Heljasz backtalked to a doctor who was examining him. He was dismissed from his team for "misconduct...
...world's merchant marine what Jane's Fighting Ships does for the world's navies. Consisting of accurate scale drawings of the principal merchant vessels of the seven seas, it enables any landlubber to identify any distant liner from the huge Queen Mary to the little Polish Batory...