Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south portico itself was not added to the White House until 1824, the colonnaded north portico five years later. Other Presidents have made other alterations with & without outcry. Jefferson added wing terraces and long rows of one-story "offices," which also served as "meat house, wine cellar, coal and wood sheds and privies." Buchanan tacked on a glass conservatory, Coolidge raised the roof (unnoticeably from the outside) to find room for eight bedrooms...
Chief rival to Ahmed is Ali, who has two formidable assets: he commands the Sana garrison and is close to the Imamate's treasury, in the cellar under Yahya's palace. Brother Abdullah, Yahya's roving ambassador to various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote from Yemen to be a strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after...
...newly renovated cellar club called the Blue Note (formerly Lipp's Lower Level), the big names were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...
...Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
...game all season. The Nationals' two biggest stars, like the league itself, have been around for years. Sammy Baugh, 33, playing his eleventh season for the Washington Redskins, seemed to throw a football better every year. Though the Redskins are only one step out of the National League cellar, Baugh tops the league with 2,438 yards gained by passing. Right behind him in passing is indestructible Quarterback Sid Luckman, 30, who has field-generaled the Chicago Bears to eight straight victories...