Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crest of a long Allegheny mountain grade last week, the Pennsylvania's slick Sunshine Special stopped to uncouple an engine. Suddenly, the rear Pullman broke loose. Like a runaway in the Perils of Pauline, it swept back downhill...
...Etna. In Sicily, Mt. Etna was erupting again. A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes...
...MOUNTAIN LION (231 pp.)-Jean Stafford-Harcourt, Brace...
Unlike oil and water, symbolism and realism can be mixed-but it takes a skilled hand. Ambitious young Novelist Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure) takes a try at it in her second novel, and doesn't bring it off. In parts The Mountain Lion is beautifully clear-a delicate, sharp story of childhood and adolescence. But it darkens toward the end, and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence...
...will ever speak to him again. ... I intend to read all of Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Stevenson and James Fenimore Cooper while I am here so that I won't have to have anything to do with R.F. He and Uncle Claude were talking about hunting a mountain lion. I can think of nothing more boresome personally...