Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film, made in Poland with Auschwitz itself for a set, telling the story of the German prosecution of 4,500,000 Poles. Of course, the picture is grim-probably more grim than any other of the war narratives; but, in the endurance and faith of the group of Polish women portrayed, even the worst of horrors are obscured. You can't leave the theater without thinking that what might have been an ordinary documentary film has been converted into an exceptionally fine drama...
...Houses Polish Ground Attack...
...Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...
...force and gentleness, of practicality and high purpose. ¶Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr) (1946-48), a professional diplomat who could play the bagpipes and would rather talk about Scottish wild. flowers than about politics. He was said to look like "a cigar-store Indian with a high polish." This could have been misleading; he was much smarter than a cigar-store Indian...
...still more than a year away, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had taken to the hustings. The very first day he got down to business; a committee met him at the Cloverleaf and escorted him to a nearby hall where he addressed 350 delegates to the state convention of the Polish Legion of American Veterans...