Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...addition to the present dining space will serve the purpose of accommodating the future Standish residents of John Winthrop House, so that all members may eat together. The work of excavating a cellar-like dining room with a floor more than eight feet underground will result in putting the old and new sections of the room on a level. The only indication above ground of the extension will be a low terrace with a limestone balustrade extending about 15 feet from the building toward the river. This terrace will run only half the length of the dormitory as there will...
Henry Brown, 27 times a father, is a butcher. He retired two years ago in ill health. Of his family he said: "They're all strong and healthy, and I encourage them in taking part in clean sport and play. The cellar's full of ice skates, skis, snowshoes and other stuff for them to play with outdoors. ... It would be nice to get the money, but if we don't-all right...
...preparing the ground for the erection of Lowell House in the summer of 1929, the two stories of the building were separated from the cellar and moved bodily to their present position. No foundations were built for the house in its new site, it being placed on brick piles, and at first fears were felt for its stability. The room partitions were knocked out and each floor was converted into a single room. It was furnished with tables and chairs from the former Memorial Hall Dining Room...
...turnip-grower could issue money he might say: "Here is a piece of paper good for one turnip. I promise to keep a turnip in my cellar for each piece of paper I issue, or if not a turnip then an onion or some other vegetable equally good...