Word: frontierisms
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...Meanwhile, in the game of preparation for conquest that Füiihrer Hitler was playing in & near Danzig, the Poles showed themselves as tough as the Nazis. Before the Führer grabs new lands and riches his lieutenants generally stage numerous frontier "incidents" which are supposed to show that the Führer's patience is being taxed by cruel treatment of his people in the territory he has his eye on. The Poles played the same game. When the German press described a "mass flight" of Germans from Polish "terrorism," Poles charged that hundreds of their citizens...
...ever had and a unique collection of pictures. The museum had combed 145 public and private sources, from Boston's (public) Latin School to Missouri's State Historical Society, for paintings illustrative of "Life in America" to 1914. The result was a visual chronicle, period by period, frontier to frontier and back again, of human beings engaged in the conquest of a continent...
...that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...
...premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians, their reaction to "civilization," the lives of the railroad workers, and the machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly portrayed. Technical superiority, shown particularly in the handling of minor characters, has produced an authentic background; Akim Tamiroff...
...Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds in becoming so tough...