Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's anti-crime drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...
...Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...
...untidy wood-pile of mammoth dimensions where University Hall now stands. The impressive simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch. In the middle of the last century this basement was the College Commons, and here a caterer served meals at $2 a week, a practice which gave the cellar...
Fifteen years ago the pale Little Father of All the Russias stood with his family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg while Lettish soldiers shot him down. Those of his followers and courtiers who could, fled the country, moving in two general directions, one through Constantinople toward Paris and the U. S., the other all the way across Siberia to Harbin and Shanghai. By education and temperament no emigr#233;s in history were worse equipped for facing life than the White Russians. In the East, Russian girls became dancing partners and gentlemen's companions. In the West, Russian...
Comes the revelation. In a dingy, sub-cellar police station the great Ferraro sings "La Traviata" before a jury of the town's musicians and is promptly acquitted, after promising to sing Rudolpho in the town's production of "La Boheme...