Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the same time Anthony Gordon Dick, a square-jawed furniture polish salesman telephoned his office that he would have to take half a day off to act as a special constable along the line of the King's march. He put on the flat-topped cap that distinguished Britain's part-time policemen from the helmeted professionals, and took up his post part way down Constitution Hill. He did not know it, but George Andrew McMahon was standing almost behind...
Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...
...German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than ever convinced that the way to deal with a Nazi is to smack him first...
Three members of his "brain trust"-Charles P. Taft, Ralph Robey and Earl Taylor-arrived from Topeka, to help polish up his July 23 acceptance speech. Senator Carey announced that, though they had not discussed any other solution to the farm problem, he and Nominee Landon had agreed that a permanent system of Federal bounties was to be deplored...
Scuttle, Scuttle, Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious...