Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Porter's ballads are so similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount batten in satin and silk, silk and satin." But he has done better than that...
...some time in the mid-19th century and published in Russian under the title: Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father. Its author is unknown, its exact date uncertain. It made its first appearance in manuscript form in the hands of one of the famed monks of Mount Athos. The abbot of St. Michael's Monastery at Kazan, Russia, discovered it, copied it, and it appeared in 1884. Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, it is only now published for the first time...
...Jovite Mount Trembiant -19-23, 10-15 powder. Excellent...
...Parent . . ." Had it not been for Mount Dora's courageous weekly newspaper Topic, the case might have ended right there. But the Topic's editor Mabel Norris Reese had long been in battle with the bullying sheriff, and in spite of all reprisals-a flaming cross on her lawn, the poisoning of her dog and the smearing of "K.K.K." across her office windows-she was ready to wage war again. The Platts, she told her readers, were of Irish-Indian stock, probably descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" of Roanoke. "If you are a parent...
Last week the FBI said it would investigate for possible violations of civil rights. Otherwise, Mount Dora seemed to be trying to forget the whole affair. The Platts had moved into a cabin out of town, their children were out of school and as far as anyone could tell, no one besides Editor Reese seemed to care...