Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert the Good. Ever since he first visited the U. S. in 1898 and learned to drive a locomotive under Railroader James J. Hill, mechanics was a burning hobby with King Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof car was not quite the thing for the pacific, democratic...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...
...Mayer Amschel Rothschild (George Arliss, in whiskers and skullcap) as a wheedling Frankfort moneybroker. The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat. When the tax-collector comes down Jew Street, stingy old Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells his five sons to found banking houses...
...cellar doors unlocked to keep...
Fighting for its outside chance to tie for the League championship, the powerful Cornell quintet takes the floor against Harvard's cellar five this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the New Indoor Athletic Building. If Cornell wins, and if Princeton defeats Pennsylvania tonight, the Ithacans will have equalled the Quaker record of nine victories and three defeats...