Word: basement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basement will be a grill room and the ground floor space will be rented to stores. The second and third floors will be used for classrooms with the main entrance leading to them opening onto Mt. Auburn Street...
...Cleveland Jim Yee, of the On Leongs, was riddled with gunfire as he slept in his laundry basement...
...especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type who spends thought, cash and attention on clothes. The investments they made on gowns brought them more in money and material comfort-to say nothing of happiness-than the thrifty basement bargain-hunter could hope to lay aside in her whole life...
...costumes have so filled the club rooms in Ridgely Annex that it has been next to impossible to hold meetings there. This condition however, has been remedied; through the kindness of Professor Francke, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, and the University authorities, the spacious basement of the Germanic Museum have been placed at the disposal of the Club. Here will be prepared the sets for the coming production in modern dress and action of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew...
...Wall Street lawyer, landed the job. He guesses he inclined to it because his ancestors were Puritans, one was a Mayflower passenger, and because obscene pictures were twice showed to him by rowdies at high school. He moved into the cosy office in West 22nd Street, where the basement is jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well the $15,000 per annum supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section...