Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroiters who turned out after Mass for the testimonial banquet in his honor were charmed by Father Matthews' urbane polish, his easy, fluid gestures, the Caribbean cadence of his speech. He told them: "It is sometimes alleged-not without some foundation in the past history of the culture-conflict of the Negro in the New World-that Negroes do not wish to be ministered to by priests of their own race. ... To say that in this year of grace and achievement, 1946, is ... a most vicious form of propaganda.. . . The business of salvation is not a racial enterprise...
...remedy has been to refine the plane's lines, polish the skin. Such tricks push the speed limit upward. But they succeed at a fearful price. Above 600 m.p.h. the slightest irregularity may beckon a fatal wave out of the speeding...
...Most of The Dark Mirror's high surface polish can be attributed to 1) oldtime Satevepost Fictioneer Nunnally Johnson, who produced and wrote the screenplay, and 2) Director Robert Siodmak, who makes a fairly regular habit of getting his name associated with slick first-rate thrillers (The Spiral Staircase, The Killers...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major; Polish Pianist Maryla Jonas, soloist; Artur Rodzinski, conducting...
...Work in the Polish underground during...