Word: basements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have been observed last fortnight poking around in the mountainous backwoods of Virginia and the tangled wilderness of rural Maryland. He looked like, and was, a detective. He had been a detective ever since a day in his small-boyhood when he tossed a baseball through a basement window in the outskirts of Philadelphia and, retrieving it, discovered for U.S. agents a nest of counterfeiters...
...September, 1918, during the St. Mihiel offensive that the historic error occurred. American troops half an hour before had occupied Thiaucourt; the cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded...
...glass-covered annex to the basement, will be installed the University bindery, which is being removed from Widener Library, where it has been declared a serious fire hazard. The remainder of the basement will be used for storage purposes...
...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...