Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gonna Walslca, Polish ex-soprano and husband collector (total fortune of her first four: $125,000,000), got rid of her sixth, Yogi Theos Bernard, but not without costs and regrets. He had provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which...
Poland's University of Lwów (which Americans might as well pronounce woof) is 285 years old, and nobody knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow...
...building, that he had seen the bodies of 15 Gentile children killed by the Jews, that he had escaped through a broken window. The myth of ritual murder by Jews is an ancient one in anti-Semitic Poland; last week, as many times before, it turned the Polish crowd into a pack of bloodthirsty maniacs...
...Government tried to fend off charges of negligence and complaisance by blaming the affair on 1) Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party; 2) fascist members of the National Armed Forces, led by agents of General Wladyslaw Anders, wartime commander of Polish forces in Italy...
...drones out a Latin benediction, bangs them on the head, and hands them their degrees. But those "up at Bodders" (i.e., studying at Oxford's Corpus Christi College, where he is president) occasionally breakfast with Sir Richard and Lady Livingstone at their baronial lodge. While his listeners polish off jars of honey (he keeps hives because he likes honey and because bees are so important in classical literature) Sir Richard talks "nothing but Plato and Aristotle...