Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signals a confrère. The confrère bumps into the villain, slaps on his back a chalk M to identify him. The thieves and beggars follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail when the police arrive. You do not see whether Society kills or tries to cure...
...surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about. Otherwise, no damage. Only clue was a long white cord by which the bomb had perhaps been lowered into the cellar...
...part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self-perpetuating body, to insure stability and quality in the cellar-stock...
SERGEANT SIR PETER-Edgar Wallace- Crime Club ($2). Money in the wrong cellar-and an automatic in the cut-out leaves of a book. An Edgar Wallace (believed to be his next-to-the-last) in the late author's characteristic vein...
...rooms within three floors. Here one may secure seclusion, but at the sacrifice of the convenience of the ordinary work-desk of the other Houses. The selection of books shows the predominance of tutors in the fields of Economics, English, Romance Languages, and Biology in the House. In the cellar of Hicks house a massive vault protects rare books such as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer from the layman, and in turn the vault protects the layman from such naughty literature as the Limericks of Norman Douglas...