Word: frontierisms
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Comrade Litvinoff was hovering last week just beyond the Swiss frontier in the tiny French village of Douvaine, waiting for M. Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
...literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never...
...frontier town of Redfield, Mass. (now Deerfield), was in poor shape for defense against the French and their Indian allies. Its palisade was old and rotten and a heavy snowfall had made it even less of a protection. There were only 150 men in the town. The cold and sleepy sentries did not suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them...
...July an unforeseen situation [the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria] developed which was similar to that which prevailed in 1914. If we had not sent our divisions to the frontier, complications might have resulted that could not have been settled save by the voice of cannon...
...official break, as a matter of fact, had occurred, but Soviet Russia was thoroughly "mad" at Japan and her puppet. Manchukuo police and soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to the Soviet frontier at Manchuli where he changed trains for Moscow. In Tokyo these arrests were strongly protested last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev in a note which held Japan responsible for the acts of her puppet and concluded ominously: "The Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics expects that...