Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia, Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki, ubiquitous Manhattanites like Novelist Fannie Hurst, scads of musicians, among them Conductor Artur Rodzinski, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, Violinist Albert Spalding. There were 20 oldsters, including kindly Dr. Walter Damrosch, who had heard the Hofmann debut concert, 50 years before. In a box sat Pianist Hofmann...
Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...Smeterlin, eminent Polish pianist, will present an all-Chopin program at Jordan Hall Sunday afternoon, December 5, at 3:30 o'clock. His choice of auditorium is a wise one, for the delicacy of Chopin's music can be much better appreciated in a small room than in the vastnesses of Symphony Hall...
...tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach...
...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...