Word: frontierisms
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Most welcome was Delbos to Czech President Dr. Eduard Benes, Europe's "Smartest Little Statesman." Too well known to Benes are the implications of the taunting verses tacked up by German frontier guards...
Except to churchmen, the name of Henry Benjamin Whipple now means little. But for almost 40 years this energetic, squarejawed, hard-traveling Episcopal bishop of Minnesota was a U. S. figure to be taken seriously: a man of affairs who exerted his influence from the poverty-stricken, remote frontier post of Faribault, Minn.; a missionary who was denounced by Senators and generals for his defense of the Indians after the Sioux Outbreak in 1862; an ecclesiastical leader who conferred with Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln, preached in most of the cathedrals of England and turned down the bishopric...
...Generals, all shot; the onetime Chief of the Soviet Munitions Trust, shot; even the Editor of the Soviet State's own newsorgan Izvestia, who was arrested. In Russia, where it is impossible to throw up one's job and flee, since the greater part of the Soviet frontier is sealed with barbed wire and guarded day and night, the number of suicides among Russians of consequence is said to have touched as high as 200 per week...
Gulla Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor...
...biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought...