Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sarah Althea Hill was born in frontier Cape Girardeau, Mo. in 1848, the year Louis Philippe lost his throne and General Zachary Taylor won the U. S. Presidency. Orphaned at 6, she was reared by a grandfather, migrated at 23 with her gold-seeking brother to California. Statuesque and golden-haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love...
...famed, hard riding, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jean Arthur as the colorful figure of Calamity Jane, the picture needs only the barest outline of a plot to make it a huge success, but "The Plainsman" has more than this. It embraces the condensation of the period of frontier development from the eve of Lincoln's assassination to and through the reign of Buffalo Bill Cody...
...Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions. After the Generalissimo had conquered China and publicly renounced...
...favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
Impressed, the customs officials bowed obsequiously when Ambassador Davies told them he had lost the Soviet permit enabling him to pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through...