Word: frontierisms
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...across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
...game rounds last week the Dictator once set some soldiers up to drinks, shook hands with an Austrian frontier guard who grinned at his country's Fascist protector, appeared to get on well with the King in a series of animated battlefield talks, and was joined by "Italy's Forgotten Hero," grinning, bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor General of Lybia. If they do hate each other as much as Rome believes, Balbo & Mussolini last week showed themselves hearty, affable masters of concealment. The Air Marshal said easily that he was not enlisting to fight Ethiopia...
...idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that it would disrupt his life with Zena. He learned it when the authorities unceremoniously loaded the pair on a train, shipped them across the frontier...
...full million men, the greatest European army since 1919, moved last week at Benito Mussolini's orders, 500,000 on Italy's Austrian frontier, 300,000 training for action against Ethiopia, 200,000 already in Africa...
...York American (Right Wing), New York Times or Herald Tribune (Centre), Daily Worker (Left Wing), World-Telegram, Post or Sun (school pages). To this he added magazines: New Masses (Extreme Left), Nation or New Republic (Left Centre), American Observer or TIME (facts), America, Commonweal, Christian Century (religion), Social Frontier (progressive education). Finally, for the "intelligent teacher" was prescribed one businessmen's "confidential news letter service," one Left Wing service. How any teacher, intelligent or otherwise, was to get through this mass of reading and still have time left for his classes, Dr. Miller did not explain...