Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During this period of business uncertainty and lowering prices the investing public has turned to Government obligations as a cyclone cellar in which to place investments. ... In view of the fact that the national debt is today almost $29,000,000,000, the highest point in our history, we may safely say that there is a greater saturation of investments in Government bonds-among our people than ever before. Just as soon as the rank & file of our people become convinced that we are upon the eve of a period of inflation ... we will witness a repetition of the experience...
Such a picture is John Steuart Curry's famed Tornado (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Showing a frightened Kansas family with children and farm pets rushing for a cyclone cellar, it won the $1,000 second prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of 1933, was featured at the Chicago Century of Progress, has been widely reproduced. Last week Artist Curry's agents, the Ferargil Galleries, sold it to the Hackley Art Gallery of Muskegon, Mich...
...Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
...potman last week found in the pub cellar the sort of thing that used to occur on the nearby stage half a century ago. Some villain had struck down a middleaged, grey-haired man, rolled him up in curtains, then in linoleum, finally in carpets and tied the big bundle with a rope. When Sir Bernard Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There...
Suddenly the whole craft disintegrated, spilling men, women, children amid falling fragments. Part of the fuselage landed on a worker's house in Moscow's outskirts, wrecked it from roof to cellar. Wings, motors, equipment, bodies and parts of bodies fell far & wide. Of the 48 on board, all were killed. Also killed was the pilot of the little training plane...