Word: frontierisms
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...forth. Neither the sanctimonious belief of the Raj in its own exalted trusteeship, nor Gandhi's equally sanctimonious conviction of his own purity was powerful enough to prevent it. The immediate danger was that the internal explosion would coincide with the advance of Japanese armies at the northeastern frontier and sea raids across the Bay of Bengal...
...with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps for the light in his old blue eyes when he looked up at us, that his own boy was off in China, ranging the flaming sky with the Flying Tigers against a new foe on a wider frontier...
...Herrenvolk of the Midwestern and Northeastern States will constitute the German-Magyar American Bund, which will have a common frontier with the enlarged Mexican Federation of Latin States...
...little green-painted house Hoge likes to slump his square shoulders in a chair and sit with the wife he met in a Lexington, Mo. kindergarten-planning the week ahead. Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs. Hoge knows how to live the frontier life. As a general's lady she still does her cooking and washing. When the general is in town they take a short evening stroll on the board sidewalk with their fox terrier-Hoge puffing a favorite pipe. Nettie Hoge has led frontier life before. In the Philippines her husband built the main road on Bataan...
Desperate Journey (Warner) well might have been titled the Rover boys in Naziland. The Boys (Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair) are members of an R.A.F. bomber crew shot down near the old Polish frontier. Their circuitous escape to England (three out of five get back) is accomplished with more outrageous luck than even Rover Boys can count...