Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore, Md., a potful of U. S. gold coins with a face value of $11,425, found last year in a cellar by Henry Grob and Theodore Jones, both 17, and awarded them by a Circuit Court Judge, was auctioned off to rare coin collectors for a total of $22,500. Highest price: $105 for a $20 gold piece, one of 2,250 minted at New Orleans...
...Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns, 25 Winchester rifles, pistols, much ammunition...
With a vitality that makes their efforts fully the equal of the original picture Writers William Hurlbut and John L. Balderston lift their monster (Boris Karloff) out of the water-filled cellar of the mill and send him out to terrify the countryside, break out of a dungeon, and make friends with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from...
Though all the world knows that the late Tsar Nicholas II of All the Russias and his family were shot to death in a cellar in Ekaterinburg, few U. S. readers have heard the whole story. Though The Murder of the Romanovs embodies two strictly partisan points of view-its co-authors are Alexander Kerensky and Paul Bulygin, a onetime captain of the Imperial Life Guards-even Bolsheviks would probably admit that the main facts of the story are true.* Less because some of the details are gruesome than because the end is inevitably tragic, most readers will want...
...complete, including erection within 100 miles of New York. Shipped by truck from the company's distributing depot, the parts are put together in two weeks under the expert eye of a company superintendent. A local building crew sinks a shallow concrete foundation (there is no cellar), erects a steel frame. Then the walls, consisting of 4-ft.-by-10-ft. panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement and asbestos. Between the layers is an insulating...