Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defeated after a long struggle to find a job in Manhattan, Author Grebenc retreated to her dilapidated week-end cottage in Connecticut, sent for U. S. Bureau of Agriculture pamphlets, began scientifically to cultivate her small vegetable garden. At the end of summer she had a renovated dwelling, a cellar full of food preserved for winter, $7.15 in cash. Under Green Apple Boughs...
...rose Mrs. Grace H. Brosseau, onetime D.A.R. president, now a W. I. A. director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized...
...crowning of his career by "the bounty of Sweden," when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (the only time the prize has been given to an Irishman). The news reached him late at night, and when the reporters had gone he and his wife searched the cellar for a bottle of wine, to celebrate. The cellar was empty, so they cooked sausages instead. At the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most...
...essence, the Burger bombproof cellar is a boilerlike contraption of heavy steel slightly larger than an automobile trailer. Buried in the ground, it is fitted with bunks and provision shelves for householders. A special pump keeps gas from seeping in by increasing the interior pressure. As in a submarine, the air is kept fresh by passing it through coils of chemicals...
...stated in the postscript, the lesson contained in Idiot's Delight is that ''by refusing to imitate the Fascists in their . . . hysterical self-worship and psychopathic hatred of others, we may achieve the enjoyment of peaceful life on earth rather than degraded death in the cellar." Happily, the solemn depths of this shopworn text are instinctively bridged by Mr. Sherwood's great gift for high comedy...