Word: cellared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...
What had Dom Pérignon done, visitors wondered, to deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...
...Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like turning anarchist and throwing a bomb in the cellar...
...Britain, kindly, honest, incurably emotional Stanley Baldwin. The hobby of beloved Prime Minister Baldwin is keeping pigs, prime pigs, prize pigs. The daily sport of popular Prime Minister Bruce is to hop from home to office by private airplane, hop back, and thus stable his winged mount in the cellar of his residence. Last week Pigfancier Baldwin and Planefancier Bruce became thoroughly vexed with one another over the vital problem of British unemployment. Cables flashed from England to Australia told that Mr. Baldwin said, last week, in the British House of Commons: "The state of permanent unemployment in Great Britain...
Boots kicked in cellar windows. Shoulders crashed open the door. Then, while detectives stumbled down steep rickety stairs or dropped in through windows, "Diamond Jew" Rubenstein and friends cupped palms to their mouths, leaned back, and amazingly swallowed diamonds. Uncut stones too big to swallow were flung madly anywhere-behind the bar, into corners, out windows...