Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were the city fathers of Fort Worth that they signed up Doctor Rose on the same terms for a second Frontier festival, which opens late this month. Lately Mr. Rose has been shuttling between Texas and Lake Erie, because this year he is playing doctor to another exposition-Cleveland...
...this situation colonial officers on the spot gave heartiest thanks for Spain's General Franco. Tempting offers of full canteens and salaries to fight for Fascist Spain have won hundreds of hungry tribesmen over the frontier, and French frontier officials have almost broken their necks turning their heads the other...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...years, the best of man's best friends have been the dogs of St. Bernard, traditionally trained by the monks of that hospice to succor and save benighted travelers in the 8,111-ft. pass under Mt. Blanc's cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past...
...scheme worked smoothly. Rumors of Nero's reappearance spread just like hornets, stung awake the disaffection already smoldering under Cejonius' inept rule. Varro, who had craftily let some bordering native princes in on his secret, withdrew from Cejonius' jurisdiction and watched the Roman frontier go up in flames. A few hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think...