Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictator who does everything with a flourish and is quite apt to do two opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...scrimmage and the Varsity coaches supervised the work of the defense. Continuing a scheme instituted last week, Coach Casey sent in four coaches against the Varsity's offense to trim up the assignment work. This method proved satisfactory last week and will probably be used again to put the polish on the first-stringers
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
Brimful of Jews, mostly from Adolf Hitler Land, the Polish immigrant steamer Polonia and the Italian Martha Washington made warily for Palestine this week, only to turn back when frantic radio warnings were flashed by British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope who had practically an Arab insurrection on his hands...