Word: frontierisms
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Frenchmen hid out in cities. Many fled to the Alps, many to the wild Haute-Savoie region along the Swiss frontier. They dug up buried guns and ammunition and joined former officers of the French Army. From "somewhere in France," a "Headquarters of Francs-Tireurs and Partisans" reported that 282 German officers and men had been killed, 14 trains wrecked, 49 locomotives destroyed, four bridges blown up, ten French quislings executed, between...
...first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army (for the This Is War series) and Dear Adolf. The President read Benet's Prayer for United Nations on his Flag Day broadcast last year...
...does not look beyond this natural life is of a somewhat narrow order, what must be the man who does not look beyond his own frontier...
Presently Lewis looked at radio and found it good ("It had frontier. At INS I was just writing for 5% of the people"). He persuaded a WOL (Washington) commentator to take a vacation and let him substitute without pay. He also did a commentary on District of Columbia fish and where to catch them. When WOL offered him a commentator's job in 1937 at $25 a week, he took it. A few years later Lindbergh came along...
...activity in and near Spain focused the world's attention there. Most of the activity was political, but 400 German troop trains were reported to have moved recently toward France's Spanish border. Eleven divisions were said to be massed on the Mediterranean end of the frontier. Germany closed the border area as a military zone...