Word: frontierisms
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Nervous Breakdown. Why was St. Gandhi in effect kidnaped by due process of law? The crushing mental and moral stresses set up by his movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official...
...During my younger days in Wall Street I had contact with the older financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...
...Light of Western Stars (Paramount). One of the major failures of talking pictures is their inability to transform into anything more lurid than drawled "yes ma'ams" and "darn its" the blasting oaths which, in silent westerns, poured inaudibly from the lips of frontier villains. This Zane Grey story, however, is nicely photographed and contains all the proper western elements-mortgaged ranch, murdered cattleman, girl from the east, rescuer on horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish...
Riots and demonstrations throughout India last week showed that the spreading ripple of St. Gandhi's movement for independence (TIME, March 24, et seq.) has widened to reach Peshawar near the remote Afghan frontier...
...secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority"; 5) the Government clapped an official censorship on all the northwestern provinces, ordered evacuation of European women and children from Peshawar and other cities on the Afghan frontier...