Word: frontierisms
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...suspected every egg set before him of being from Moscow. What drove him frantic was that he could not be sure! "In Great Britain, Belgium and Germany it is otherwise!", stormed he to correspondents. "With great wisdom those countries stamp imported eggs with an indication of origin at the frontier.† France must do the same! Millions of eggs from Moscow are being dumped upon us, Messieurs. I have information that the Paris market has been swamped with these Soviet eggs- eggs of such poor quality as to constitute a menace to the public health...
...Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first railroads were thrown across the western deserts of the U. S. Oldtime "desert rats" swarmed into a small town which had boomed because of its geological location (TIME, Feb. 10). Gaming tables and coin-in-slot pianos were prevalent. There was rough carnival in the atmosphere. Notably...
...year term of service, M. Maginot informs us, is far from having provided us with the expected increase in strength. . . . Before we can mobilize three classes of reserves we have only 180,000 young soldiers averaging ten months' service for the protection of 500 miles of frontier...
...character was given the desultory guerilla warfare against Afridi tribesmen on the northwest frontier when one of a party of tribesmen shot down and killed a Capt. F. Ashcroft of a British infantry platoon, Observers thought that the incident would precipitate a far more aggressive policy on the part of the British toward suppressing the uprising...
First U. S. Saengerbund was organized in 1835 at Philadelphia, first Saengerfest held in 1849 at Cincinnati. Thereafter all over the country the German music germ spread. In the West during the woolly days of the Gold Rush, a Dr. Maleck, stout fellow of the rough frontier, led miners, gamblers, traders, hangers-on in rollicking Teutonic song. For the rest of the century, German societies sprang up, lived a short time, died. It was not until 1905 that the present Pacific Saengerbund was born. Robert Lorentz was its organizer, G. G. Reigger its leader. In 1910 the first Pacific fest...