Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddling progress" of democracy. Arthur Garfield Hays reaffirms his faith in our system. It works not because it fits a "philosophical blueprint," but because through selection and adoption it is responsive not to any one but to all pressure groups. Though not of lasting importance and lacking in polish, his book is full of hope and thoroughly convincing at a time when people need conviction...
WARSAW--The Government tonight prepared to answer Fuehrer Adolf Hitler with defiant counter-demands for increased Polish rights in Danzig--perhaps including a formed protectorate--after May Day celebrations marked by bitter anti-German feeling...
Axis Victory. Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu, fresh from talking with Dictator Hitler, went to London to put the finishing touches to the Rumanian-British-French-Polish alliance. Conversely, at Bucharest arrived a group of British financial experts to plan an extension of trade between the two countries. In a week full of diplomatic soundings, however, the Axis powers scored the most important victory...
...years ago, Leo Calvin Rosten, 31, Polish-born teacher, humorist, researcher, social scientist, won pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept...
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has. been shown in 48 countries outside the U. S., under names ranging from SnÖvit och de Sju Dvärjarma (Swedish) to Snjeharka (Czech), with "dubbings" in Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation...