Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...13th volume of Men of Good Will. He has been writing his vast serial for 13 year. He writes in longhand on his mahogany desk in the combination dining and living room, his back to the window that overlooks Mexico City to the south and, beyond it, the mountain ranges hemming in the Valley of Mexico. For six or seven hours each day, he traces out the involved characters and the complicated situations of the giant novel that already runs to 5,822 printed pages...
Jerphanion, now vice president of the Radical-Socialist Party. He delivers a long, dull speech (which Romains unblushingly describes as "great"). With an ex-diplomat he investigates a death among the mountain people of his native province-a death which might be from hard conditions of life in a snowbound farmhouse without medical aid, or might be murder...
Krauts at Cervaro. The haggard faces, worn bodies of soldiers who survived the mountain fighting, often in or above the clouds, testified to the intensity of German resistance. Out of the fighting came many a tale...
...lonely Alpine village the French mountaineers had ceased to speak of Bastineau. Some said he was "missing," some said he was dead. The cold, sphinxlike stranger with a dueling scar on his cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found...
...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...