Word: cellared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient Cambridge, where, culture keeps a chain store or two, the pilgrims are returning to buy their stuff a home. The annual Grand Tour is a memory and some labels. And Baedecker's are packed away by tutors and tutees al ke. But down in the cellar of a musty, fussy old chateau in some place or other, probably Germany, Pan is counting coin and smiling. It was, on the whole he finds, an excellent year...
...every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little...
...Story.* It was after spending a molten July day on his slanting cellar door, contemplating pipe-smoke, hollyhocks and a vista of the Marvellous Vale, that Dr. Higbie Chaffinch, 64, professor of the Latin language and literature at Johns Hopkins University and for some weeks a widower, journeyed to Baltimore's business section to advertise for a housekeeper, and, adventurously, to dine in an oyster-bar. It was in the oyster-bar that a rubicund, ejaculatory stranger tendered him a card...
Summary of vital facts: 22 persons were killed and $84,000,000 worth of government property was destroyed. The cost of constructing the cellar storage plants was lately estimated...
...bullet scars upon her scalp and abdomen, who is being cared for in a Berlin sanitarium under the name "Frau von Tschaikovski" (TIME, Jan. 11), may actually be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, reputedly murdered with her father Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the imperial family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg. (July...