Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleventh day of the revolution, Venizelos' generals threw in the sponge and scuttled for the Bulgarian frontier. Their automobile stuck in the Boz snowdrifts and they crossed the frontier on foot, their baggage on their backs. Rebel General Demetrius Kamenos told newshawks: "Our efforts to overthrow the Tsaldaris regime must, at least for the moment, be abandoned...
Back to Moscow went Fluff's mistress, obtained a certificate from the State to export Fluff's fur, sped on to Germany where Nazi frontier guards charged $19 as a visa fee for admitting Fluff...
...Venizelos' greatest political strength has always been in his native Crete and among the Macedonian mountaineers along the northern frontier. Macedonians too are the best-known troops in the Greek Army, the be-tasseled, be-kilted Evzones familiar to all tourists. Other plotters had been at work in Macedonia where rebellion spread like quicksilver. They were less successful with the white-kilted Evzones. The Athens detachment rebelled tentatively, was quickly subdued with a few volleys of gunfire. Next morning other Evzones regiments were patrolling the city beside loyal Tsaldaris troops...
...themselves dropped in on a meeting run by the busy, vocal "Social Frontier" professors who come chiefly from Teachers' College, Columbia. This faction, always a power in N. E. A. conventions, had gone to Atlantic City determined to jolt the superintendents out of their customary conservatism. They were holding forth in the Rose Room of the Traymore Hotel...
...gold now goes where it does the most good-into government stocks. Last week, however, the Kremlin Dictatorship, clear though their consciences are, were humanly vexed when Hearst's American Newspapers Inc. released a whole series of Soviet famine pictures. These should have been confiscated by Soviet frontier guards, some of whom may expect a wigging...