Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument? 'Don't you dare disown me when...
When the Austrians were reported to have crossed the Italian frontier in the World War, Dr. Modigliani supervised the transportation of all Northern Italian art treasures to inland and southern cities, where for the remainder of the War they safely remained...
Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform...
...cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
...declaration of war by Congress authorized U. S. participation in the sorry North Russia expedition, which began in the summer of 1918. President Wilson consented on his own responsibility to the use of U. S. troops on this remote frontier. The original Allied purpose was to offer a new threat to Germany on the East, following the collapse of Russia as a fighting force, to guard supplies, to keep U-boats out of the cold White Sea. But objectives became muddled. The Allied troops numbered some 27,000, of which 5,100 were U. S. soldiers. Twenty thousand "White" Russians...