Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
Ambassador. Alarmed by President Hoover's appointment of Presbyterian Motorman John North Willys to be U. S. Ambassador at Warsaw (Mr. Hoover had previously designated Methodist Alexander Pollack Moore, who died before he could take the post) the Polish Catholic Press Agency last week sent out as news a story that "Mr. Willys finances anti-Catholic fanatics, mostly Methodists...
Special significance was attached to this incident by Poles, because the present Pope was formerly Nuncio at Warsaw, maintains closest touch with prominent Polish Catholics. The daily Gazeta Warszawska said editorially: "Ambassador Willys must cease to be a Protestant missionary while he remains in Poland...
...years ago, spoke tall Bernard Mannes Baruch, speculator and financier extraordinary, economist, authority on mineral waters. His father was a Prussian-Polish Jew who emigrated to the U. S., served as a field surgeon in General Lee's army; his mother was the daughter of a Southern planter. Bernard Mannes Baruch went north as a young man, became famed for his market operations, his floating of the great Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co. during the panic of 1907 and, later, for his services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material...
There is nothing in Stokowski's back-ground to explain his penchant for the new. He was conventionally raised in London, son of a Polish father and an Irish mother. He went to Queen's College, Oxford, thence to London where he became organist in St. James's Church in Piccadilly. It was as an organist that he came to the U. S. in 1905, 23 then and looking much as he does now-slender, pale-blue-eyed, seraphically blond. He played for three years at St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, saved his money, returned...