Word: cloudland
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...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...
...much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they are a mirror, not a silver-screen. Some of the reflections: A mountain boy, fired by his teacher with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world...
...introduction into the plan of military training of class-room work, which is conducted in much the same manner as the ordinary College routine, has brought the embryo soldier back from the military cloudland in which he has been wandering for the past two weeks of uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny...
...last red rays lagg'd in a desert cloudland...