Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rioters fell back, up jumped Father Pippy. Premier Squires, rising badly bruised from the bottom of the heap, was rushed to a secret cellar, disappeared from the Newfoundland scene for 24 hours. The mob, though they had let their quarry escape, made a thorough job of smashing all the Colonial Building windows, battering doors and desks to splinters and scattering State papers by the armful in the street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building...
...seclusion before an open-fire. With all its charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection of books reflects the predominance of Economics, Romance Languages, and English specialists in the personnel of the House. In the cellar of Hicks House the Library has its massive vault for precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library...
...great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious in the kitchen with blood-stains on her dress. Reconstructing the crime, however...
...Modern Museum last week and with them the work of several of their U. S. disciples: Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra. Bowman Bros., and the recent convert Raymond Hood. Of particular interest were a Howe & Lescaze model of an ideal tenement, built on stilts to save the cost of cellar excavating; and Raymond Hood's elaborate model of a 21-story apartment tower for the country, designed to occupy the centre of a large co-operative garden...
Soprano Rosa Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...