Word: frontierisms
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Crape-draped, a German special train was sent to the Swiss frontier last week. From the trim little railway station a plain coffin was carried by big-boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...
...deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier "incidents" as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared...
...late father's funeral, the King singled out Germany's representative for marked attention. His Majesty made friendly and public overtures to the Nazis last year as Prince of Wales. This at the time flustered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had lucklessly declared that Britain's frontier was upon the Rhine...
...Despite glimpses of temple prostitutes, riot victims, child wives, the gigantic temple car being pulled through the streets, the most dramatic pictures are simple landscapes of the gaunt country around Khyber Pass, inhabited only by fighting men, with troops, tanks and airplanes revolving around a crude sign that reads: "Frontier of India, Travellers Are Not Permitted to Pass...
Lecturer DeVoto, who has become widely known through his articles in Harper's on subjects ranging from the Mormon frontier, through New England and its spirit, to the philosophy of Pareto, is the author of "Mark Twain's America" and several works of fiction...