Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need to go back to China. Says...
...year was 1898; the month, December; the place, Paris. A woman with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a dark, bearded man worked in taut silence in a place described as a ''cross between a horse stable and a potato cellar.'' The walls were of rough planks; the glass roof, patched in places, leaked when it rained. There were three battered deal tables covered with apparatus, a few chairs, a pot-bellied stove. On the asphalt floor lay coarse mats...
...abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar. In an attempt to kill Karloff, lugubrious Lugosi is scared off by the appearance of a black cat. Next day the uneasy U. S. visitors try to escape but are thwarted by Karloff who has his chilly eye on the bride (Jacqueline Wells), for a Black Mass that evening. Karloff...
...Black Mass, all the characters have talked of horror more than they have experienced it. But with that grisly bout of Satanism they swing into action, shrieking, shooting, skulking, fainting, sprinting, cursing and puffing. Lugosi's daughter (Lucille Lund) inexplicably appears on the embalming table in the cellar. Lugosi and Karloff grapple over the table, are separated by a servant. Lugosi commences skinning Karloff alive with a scalpel. The U. S. visitors escape the house. Dynamite blows the whole situation to bits...
When Marinette. Wis. CWA workers were laying the foundations of a new school building, they kept warm by moving their concrete mixer right into the cellar. Last week they had finished the cellar, leaving no exit for their mixer...