Word: frontierisms
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...West's latest, and condemned to the tortures of a stage show. The rise of the word genteel, and of all that it connotes, during the last century, has effectually outlawed such virile practice as booing, hissing, the throwing of fruit--with the exception of communities on the farthest frontier and of political meetings...
...true that Britain is at present refusing visas to U. S. newspaper reporters, who wish to visit Palestine, where Arabs and Jews are disputing a mutual homeland? And India where frontier battles have been steadily hushed...
First picture in the new LIFE symbolically showed an obstetrician holding by the heels a just-born baby whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones...
...threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...