Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince Mihai's eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...further parallel suggests itself. "Rugged Individualism" in this country seems to be on the decline (though competition for jobs is stronger than ever). Extra curricular activities, though still powerful, have some of their pristine glory. Will the College Plan do to the one what the passing of the frontier has done to the other? Are not both the symbols of the philosophy of competition a philosophy that has seen better days? Yale News...
...Though frontier days have gone forever, the U. S. is still friendly, in some ways, to backwoods pioneers. In no other country could such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Tully hope for a hearing, let alone a respectful, respectable audience. In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate. Jim Tully's persistent clamor in the lobby has not yet gained him admission. Crudely violent writer of crudely violent melodramatics. Author Tully has done better books than Laughter in Hell, but none more typical...
...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...