Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor's daughter was one of the strikers (they prefer to be known as "non-starters"). The nonstarters, well aware of a nationwide shortage of 125,000 teachers, took a full-page ad in the Norwalk Hour to say that they were tired of working at "bargain-basement prices." A North Carolina school superintendent promptly wired a bid for two eighth-grade teachers...
Crack-Up's slam-bang plot never makes a great deal of sense-but it contains some good, fast chases, a fire, a corpse in the dark museum basement and a train crash. Through all the energetic hurlyburly, the hero & heroine look convincingly confused and harried...
...Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz...
Morning and evening meals will be furnished by the concern which now operates the Brunswick Grill in the basement of the hotel at a rate of $1.25 per day per person. Location of the dining room is undecided; but it will be either in the Copley Square officer's club, which adjoins the hotel, in the Brunswick Grill, or in the old hotel dining room on the lobby floor...
...rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...