Word: polese
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Gold Hoarders. Nervous Poles, who have hoarded U. S. banknotes, recently exchanged them by the million in unreasoning panic for Polish banknotes. Not exactly pleased with themselves, the Poles next took a tip from Frenchmen, began buying U. S. gold pieces. Last week this trend made Polish bankers simply wild...
They had been eager, fortnight ago, to give Polish zlotys in exchange for dollar bills. But they winced last week at supplying dollar gold pieces in exchange for paper zloty. All this gold, declared the Bankers' Association of Poland in a manifesto to the public, was becoming "sterilized" in...
As a painter Marcel Mouillot's color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms...
Burly Sheriff Farley, openly called "grafter" by Inquisitor Seabury, admitted he had spent $14,000 bailing out 30 prisoners arrested in a raid on his political club, but denied knowing any of them, denied that "Baldy" Froelich or any of the other professional gamblers arrested there were actually gambling. He...
The big silk spiders of Bermuda have been weaving their skeins on low bushes and shrubs this summer instead of up in the trees and telephone poles. Any sapient Bermudian knows what that means: a hurricane season.