Word: frontierisms
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...Rhine!" Action last week was possible largely because Mr. Baldwin took such fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty...
...Caleb Bingham moved with his family to Howard County in 1819. Left fatherless at the age of twelve he worked as an apprentice cabinet maker and cigar roller, turned to painting as a profession when he met an Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits of his frontier neighbors enabled...
...this time he continued to turn out a great quantity of Missouri portraits, and a lengthy series of paintings of river boatmen, fishermen, frontier riflemen, fur traders, election day crowds, etc., etc. They were so highly admired by his contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting...
Meanwhile the three skiers, their murder party over, had fled. Finding the frontier barrier closed to their car in the dead of night, they crossed into Germany on foot. But in Europe a good car is too valuable to be abandoned. At dawn they thriftily sent for their car, got it back well before the murder was discovered...
...Minute. Meanwhile French frontier guards were said to be admitting Saar Jews and other Saarlanders who fear Nazidom at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Most refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were...