Crossword-Solution: PANATELLA 9 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They're a fool notion of the old man, for we can't sell one in a month.” Hopalong dug up a handful and threw one on the counter, lighting another: “Yu light a Cortez panatella with me,” he said, pocketing the remainder.

The place that Panatella had chosen for the start of his balloon ascension was a field upon the crest of the Palisades above the amusement park.

She was plainly fascinated as Panatella explained the manner of his flight and his drop through the air.

All was happening so swiftly that neither Harry nor Panatella reached the basket before the maddened animal.

Panatella had all but reached the platform; Harry was within arm's length of it, when, with a writhing twist the bag jerked the basket sideways and upward, knocking to the ground the last two men who had held it and whirling forth into the deathly emptiness of space a cowering, stunned girl, whose white face peered and white hands pleaded over the basket rim--peered down upon the upturned faces of thousands who would have risked their lives to aid, but who stood helpless in their pity, hushed in fear.