Word: frontierisms
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...absolutely no purpose in writing my book," the noted author replied in answer to a question as to why he had commenced his latest undertaking, "except to amuse myself. As you know, my book is the result of Mr. Ernest Boyd's suggestion that my acquaintance with frontier society might be serviceable in the explanation of Mark Twain. It was originally intended to be one of a series of short biographies, to be known as the 'International Men of Letters Series.' The articles, however, were never published, and I, therefore, decided to continue my work, with 'Mark Twain's America...
Across the border, Polish Jokesmiths joined the fun. A story circulated about one Wieslaw Hawrylowicz who escaped from Russia disguised as a cow. "Would you believe it! He sewed himself up in a real cow's skin and hobbled over the frontier on all fours in full view of Red guards so dumb they never knew the difference...
...come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle...
...Peru is a pacific people! It does not plan to enter war with any other state, but it has to preoccupy itself necessarily about its defense when winds of war blow along the frontier...
...organizers of the historic Armory Show of 1912 that introduced Matisse. Picasso and Cezanne to the bewildered U. S. For years he has blazed a defense of modern painting up & down the columns of a dozen newspapers and magazines in language that would have pleased a frontier editor in gold rush days...