Word: frontierisms
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...Frontier Life. In Mankota, Sask., a steer in a cattle car poked a horn through the car's slats, caught up a switch lamp en route, baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose...
...lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
...Volume I of this huge work centers around mighty Salathiel Al-bine, offspring of a blacksmith frontiersman. One day the child Salathiel left his parents' cabin on the wild Pennsylvania frontier, went down to the spring for water. "A brown arm with a copper band around it came out of the bushes and grasped him by the hair." Little Salathiel knew "the Injuns...
...would be separate and independent until a pledbiscite or an agreement should decide whether it should be reunited with Germany, remain independent, or find a new existence in some kind of a Danubian federation or new arrangement. The Sudeten Germans would remain with the Czechs within the natural mountain frontier of Czechoslovakia as in 1933, except such Sudeten Germans as preferred to migrate to the Reich...
Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...