Word: frontierisms
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...student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...
Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...
...Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...
First, anti-aircraft batteries would fire blank shots. If these were disregarded, French combat planes would take the air, surround the German peepers and try to shoo them back into Germany, "making every effort to avoid collision and in no case pursuing beyond the frontier...
...provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin while Nazis laugh up their brown sleeves...