Word: frontierisms
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Latest dispatches from Moscow reported that rifle fodder was being rounded up in Soviet districts along the Polish frontier, remote from either Moscow or Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Twelve were arrested in White Russia, 37 in the Ukraine far to the south. As an afterthought the Government, having let in the clutch of its machine of systematic Terror, described the nondescript persons shot last week as "Terrorists...
...been many times edited and reedited since their first publication, little has been written heretofore upon the personnel of the group which carried the American flag into the wilderness of the Northwest in the first decade of the last century. Charles Wilson, self-styled "recreational student of farming and frontier history" of Arkansas, has fortunately taken upon himself the task of writing a biography of Meriwether Lewis, leader of the band of discovery...
...similarity between the policies of 1914 and 1934 evident. Once again, as in the days before the Great War, the traditional British policy of isolation has been abandoned. Daily cooperation with France and her allies is becoming more open. Stanley Baldwin's speech last spring stating that the frontier of the Empire is now on the Rhine was the first unmistakable sign of the changed atmosphere. More recently the provision of British troops for service in the Saar and the vigorous policy pursued at Geneva by the Lord Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden, have merely emphasized the new policy. England...
...those who are interested in the Eastern pact have been or will be again called on to make it known whether they intend or not to subscribe to or avoid their European duty. There is one principle of which everyone must recognize the necessity: the maintenance of present frontiers. Whoever changes frontier posts troubles the peace of Europe." So, Deutscher Volk, do your duty. Keep the peace. Shout "Status quo" and "Vive la France...
...Spanish people to whom he has devoted his life. Among his best plates : a naked toothsome young wife kissing her lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high in the air with one hand...