Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clicking of heels, the toast has been drunk. After this the little glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into the fireplace. This is a very expensive tradition, but a most pleasant and necessary one. And then there is the custom of searching the cellar for Guy Fawkes' men at the opening of every parliament. The torch bearer as he steals about the dripping cellars of the building is not a simple man. He knows that Guy Fawkes and all his men have gone and that if Parliament is to be destroyed it will...
Shattuck is a name to be dreaded by bandits and thieves. In April 1922 four cutthroats entered the Manhattan home of Mr. & Mrs Albert R. Shattuck, robbed them, locked them with eight servants in the wine cellar. With a pocket knife and a dime the prisoners worked their way out, close to death from suffocation. Mr. Shattuck vowed to capture the criminals. In 1924 the last one was captured, was sentenced to 45 to 65 years in Sing Sing. Mr. Shattuck died in 1925, avenged.* The name Shattuck again made news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert...
...lowly furnace used to figure prominently in many of the old romantic yarns about Harvard. The poor but earnest youth from the middle West who had come to Cambridge with $2.75 and a high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally...
...stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken to jail. She says good-bye to the young Jew (William Collier Jr.) who lives on the ground floor, packs her belongings in a suitcase, goes off down the street...
...hidden there. Its embattled proprietor refused and opened fire. A machine gun squad came out from town on the run. At the end of an hour firing ceased. Police rushed the doors and found inside only the bodies of two dead men, the caretaker and the proprietor. In the cellar was an arsenal of rifles, revolvers, hand grenades, shotguns...