Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole business is very sleekly done and is fairly suspenseful and entertaining. But all the intelligence and talent are wasted in putting a high polish on emptiness. The show is a solid necklace of carefully matched cliches. Rosalind Russell is competent in her rangy, highly stagy role, but she skillfully avoids proving whether she can, or cannot, play Hedda...
...Warsaw last week, a Polish woman stopped before a students' dormitory to ask what all the flags and crowds were about. A fierce young Greek confronted her. "What side are you on?" he demanded. "What do you mean?" she asked...
...world's youth, it seemed in Warsaw, had many problems-peace, better working conditions, more and better jobs, more education, abolition of child labor. But in Warsaw all the answers were clear, and dictated. A young Polish delegate put in a resolution which flatly declared that in the Soviet Union and in the popular (i.e., Soviet satellite) democracies "all the problems of youth have been solved." The Federation's suave French Communist President Guy de Boisson suggested the resolution be modified to say they were "on the road to solution." Snaoped Soviet Delegate Alexei Klimov: "That...
...yecki (roughly: squarehead), laughs at his naiveté. Many of the yecki are physicians (of that great, devoted band of German-Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish Jew to sell...
...celebrators. Jangling telephones brought in better & better news. Hero-worshiping neighbors crowded around as Duplessis sat in a corner chain-smoking and reading telegrams of congratulations. "We goes up!" bellowed a little butcher by the name of Dollar Bacon, "Maurice is the best we ever had. For French, English, Polish and every kind of peoples, he is the best. Gosh, that Maurice...