Word: frontierisms
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...favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
Stamm) and Mrs. Davies' female secretary. This sort of candid Capitalism is, in a foreigner, the approach which commands the most respect from Bolsheviks in Russia today; they despise a Liberal or a Pink. At the Soviet frontier, where everyone must change trains, Ambassador Davies asked for a private car. Told that the Soviet has none, he cheerfully chartered a whole ordinary sleeping...
Impressed, the customs officials bowed obsequiously when Ambassador Davies told them he had lost the Soviet permit enabling him to pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through...
Dictator Kamâl Atatürk last week rushed with Turkish troops to the Syrian frontier and presumably his bravoes staged the riot in Antioch. Immediately afterward the tense atmosphere suddenly, mysteriously cleared. The Dictator returned to Istanbul and his Foreign Office announced that it was dickering amicably with French Premier Léon Blum...
...member of his family although he has married twice (his first wife died in 1901) and has three married daughters. Before he was 24 he had worked his way through college and law school, taught school for seven months near Walla Walla, Washington Territory, and returned from the far frontier to Nebraska. There he was shortly made prosecuting attorney, served three terms, then two terms as district judge...