Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, wine-tasters sip wines, let their tongues tell them whether the fluid is bound for a plebian carafe or a gentleman's cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...
Statistics: 27 bedrooms, a cellar stocked by the Master of the Wine Cellars at Buckingham Palace, one ballroom, one gymnasium...
Died. Louis Henry Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, 87, War hero; of bronchial pneumonia; at Rheims. In 1914 at Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended the wounded, held Mass wherever he could, sometimes underground, remained until forced by military authority to retreat from the city in April 1918. In 1927 he consecrated the rebuilding Cathedral (not yet completed). To announce his death, the Cathedral's chimes tolled the number of his years...
...Howard, perceiving there was enough to last until he should be gone, merely announced that he would import no more liquors, an announcement which was permitted to appear as a compliment to President Hoover. The new British Ambassador purposes to build up a large and hospitable stock in the cellar of the new embassy now nearing completion on upper Massachusetts Avenue...
...Frelinghuysen's change on Prohibition was the big local news of the week. For six years (1917-23) Mr. Frelinghuysen was a New Jersey Senator. He voted for the 18th Amendment, helped to override the Wilson veto of the Volstead Act. As a Dry possessed of a famed wine cellar, he declared...