Word: basements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. Laurence Stallings: u If the narrative pauses for one moment and Mr. Bennett perceives an open basement door, the whole book must wait while he ransacks the dwelling of interest...
...Forty years ago, before Cambridge went no license that New York Times editorial of yours might have meant something. Then the basement of the Harvard Cooperative Society was a barroom, with pool rooms upstairs. Before 1885, when Cambridge went dry, there were seven licensed saloons in Harvard Square, and all the grocery stores sold liquor,--and that was about all the stores there were in the Square in those days...
Automatic fire sprinklers are being installed in the basement of Harvard Hall as a result of considerable agitation o the part of the University authorities as well as the student body. For some time it has been felt that Harvard Hall was a dangerous fire trap having narrow staircases and no fire escapes. With the sprinklers installed the University authorities say that the danger from fire will be reduced to a minimum because there are no furnace fires in the building, all heat coming from the Boston Elevated Railway Company power house...
...only real danger has been from a fire caused by rubbish in the basement and this will be taken care of by the new springling system. This system is now installed in Harvard, Sever and Austin Halls and also in the Universal Museum...
...transpired that part of a rare art collection owned by Joseph Pennell, American etcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, author, was irreparably damaged by water in the basement of a London warehouse where it had been stored since 1917, when the Pennells gave up their residence at Adelphi Terrace, London, on account of the War, and returned to the U. S. When Mrs. Pennell went over in 1922 to secure the goods, she found 30 out of 56 cases ruined by damp. The loss is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars and can never be replaced...