Word: frontierisms
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...this time, the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis of the influence of the frontier in American history has been sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
...openly in China today at prices less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts, and the Imperial Japanese Government has demanded with success that these "dangerous weapons" be not carried by Chinese customs guards at the frontier posts most convenient for smuggling, such as Shanhaikwan on the Great Wall...
Plenty of pretty girls in the fewest possible clothes was the formula which made Fort Worth, Tex.'s Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating...
...Spanish fishing smacks, heavily armed, have been regularly running this gold to Marseille. The Bank of France has been buying it as fast as presented, and in the name of Largo Caballero and other Spanish Marxians as individuals, bank accounts have been set up in France. On the Pyrenees frontier last week seedy-looking persons crossing from Spain were found by French customs guards to have gold pieces and even ingots concealed in loaves of bread. Thus it appeared that before fleeing from Madrid the Cabinet not only "democratized" rifles and pistols by handing them out openly but must also...