Word: frontierisms
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...whom they had sneeringly dubbed "Saint Louis of Boston." He was no political radical. He was almost mystically a believer in the individual. The son of a middle-class Bohemian immigrant who had fled after the European revolutions of 1848, Brandeis was born (Nov. 13, 1856) into the semi-frontier society of Kentucky, in an atmosphere of deeply felt, unquenchable individualism...
Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...
Japan began feeling out Russian defenses along the 1,800-mile Manchukuo-Siberian border. Small frontier clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...
REFERENCE "PERU CONTINUES TO FIGHT ECUADOR" TIME, SEPT.1, ALLOW ME TO CONVEY YOU MY APPRECIATION FOR IMPARTIAL UNABRIDGED ACCOUNT DEPLORABLE EVENTS AGAINST CONTINENTAL SOLIDARITY GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS WHICH HAS JUSTLY ALARMED OUR CONTINENT. ECUADOR CONTINUED BEING SUBJECT UNPROVOKED AGGRESSIONS BY PERU'S ARMED FORCES ALONG WHOLE 600-MILE FRONTIER NOTWITHSTANDING TRUCES JULY 26 AND 31 THROUGH GOOD OFFICES UNISTATES, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL. TIME'S TRUTHFUL STORY VIVIDLY PAINTS PERU'S INVASION AND BLITZ METHODS USED FOR OCCUPATION WHOLE PROVINCE OF PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC ECUADOR...
...years later the Tsar fell, and this ended the agreement. Britain's Foreign Secretary, the suavely arrogant Lord Curzon of Kecleston, then had a lovely dream. He dreamed of extending British control from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, thereby adding a magnificent frontier province to British India. The Mesopotamian campaign had slopped over into always neutral Persia, but in 1918 the British drove the Turks out and garrisoned Persia's strong places. The next year Shah Ahmad, even bleaker-brained than Shah Muzaffar, had no alternative but to submit to an agreement by which his country...