Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
...Notes on a Cellar Book," Saintsbury's magic sword, was all dressed up in red and white and black and gold and a preface by Owen Wister, and brought out in a new American edition, for a generation that has never known good wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...
...Notes on a Cellar Book" is, however, much more than a guide to wines and liquors, enumerating their uses, merits, and characteristics. It is the record of a life, and the justification of a tradition. George Saintsbury was 74 years old when the book was written, and those years had been full--full of liquor and full of living. The book is a treatise on the liquor, but the living shines through on every page. Not just in anecdotes, profusely interspersed as they are, but in such by-the-way sentences as this: "There is no good...
...constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating in its proper home...
...Irish Republican Army. But he had the bad luck to witness the bombing of a Black & Tan lorry, and in the subsequent shindy he shot a man in self-defense. After that, the only safety for Kerry was in the I. R. A. After being hidden in a cellar, he was spirited away to Ardfalla, a little village on the coast where the I. R. A. had a gunrunning post, an underground ammunition factory. Then Kerry began to see death. His first ambush was not so bad. The massacre of Black & Tans herded into a cell was worse. When...