Word: frontierisms
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From Peshawar, on India's northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
...French statesmen have been steadily leading their country down the road of misery, throwing away with both hands what he won at Versailles, and simultaneously blaming him for not having won more. Foch, for example, maintained that Clémenceau should have persuaded the Peace Conference to set the eastern frontier of France at the Rhine...
...England, and a Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia but possessing a strong love for each other, set their backs resolutely on the civilization of their youth and rode forth into the promised land. Their adventures on the trail, their life among the rugged Titans who held the frontier forts against the redmen and the King's men, the pain, toil, and rewards, which they shared alike with their neighbors, form the theme of Miss Robert's narrative...
With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
...went well for several weeks until the pair went to call on a gentleman from the West, who possessed a brace of 45's. He found that with their leather holsters and cartridge belt, the "shooting irons" lent a decorative, masculine, frontier touch to the effeteness of his Cambridge quarters. He had heard about the unique sales arguments of the two vendors of booze, and when the pair arrived in his room one evening, he had an idea of how to bolster his sales resistance...