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...came to Taormina from Syracuse in the same compartment with a Sicilian family consisting of the father with a long mustache, the mother holding a baby, and a daughter looking like a brunette version of Greta Garbo and eating salami. My time was spent between looking for Mt. Etna and smelling the salami. Before the journey was over, however, I was eating salami, holding the baby, and listening to an Italian, French, handlanguage version of the last eruption of Mt. Etna...
...affecting greeting given me on may arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus behind a few lively skiers to climb hills in the vicinity of Hanover, Etna, or Norwich, their odd clothing and clumsy gait provoking more derision than enthusiasm in college circles...
...Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure...
Supervising Principal Etna Public Schools Etna...