Word: cellared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in the cellar of the Luxembourg, Paris, loom the shapes of pictures temporarily stored there until the museum needs them again. Last week, another picture was added to that dim company. It was Whistler's Portrait of His Mother...
...curators of that museum, however, decided to let it undergo a seasoning in the Luxembourg. There it has remained. This summer, the room in which it hung was needed for an exhibition of Rumanian paintings. The Whistler, despite the belated protests of U. S. tourists, was put in the cellar...
...thus behaving queerly, the company unfolds a tale of horrid humors. It seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening...
...wrong track. Italians abroad who do not know the language of the country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...room from the house of one John Hewlett, gentleman, who lived on Long Island in the early 17th Century. This Hewlett, since he had a word to say from time to time to a secret friend or a smuggler maybe, furnished his library with a little stairway to the cellar behind a sliding panel, by which means he managed his affairs quite neatly and kept mud from the hall carpet...