Word: frontierisms
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...will be bringers of peace to Europe. Our mission is to harmonize Germany and France. We are through with following France. I love that country, and it was only an accident that I was born in Belgium for my birthplace is two miles from the French frontier. My parents are French, so is my wife...
...volume of Americana that was less a biography than a biographical essay on the naturalist. One of the two November choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Audubon is beautifully illustrated with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted...
Except for France, the European powers are not at all perturbed by the Belgium declaration. London feels that this neutrality policy will enable France to concentrate on the Rhine, while Belgium can henceforth take care of her own frontier alone. For the future peace of Europe this move is a wise one, since European stability can never be achieved when eight or ten countries have "ganged up" upon one or two others in a "collective security" system...
...scene reminiscent of frontier days when pioneers lined up on the edge of the Western lands waiting for the gun to send them on their way to stake claims in the new areas, over 100 students jammed the basement corridors of Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. After the doors of the room were opened, the mob rushed in and in less than 10 minutes had wolfed up the entire collection...
...American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier," explains Lexicographer Craigie, accounts for the U. S. habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive...