Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford Street without a fearful glance through the fence to see whether the men from Mars have arrived. Yet little more than a hoarse shout away from the Home of Secret Weapons is an underground room where precautions are just as stringent. In a small, feverish nook in the cellar of the Music Building, the University Band holds its council of war, and there, amidst sousaphones and bandstands, it plots the marching formations and intricate parade tactics that are forever eluding every other band-conscious college. The recent paint smears and Stadium grass burning are merely manifestations of the quest...
...instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
They split into smaller groups to visit mines, mills and workers' homes. That shook them. After a visit to a cellar where a whole family lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing...
...later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar, her name had drawn a record opening-night crowd which egged Chippie on with wild applause after each number and plied her with shots of straight gin after the show...
...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Anderson were nearing the end of their treasure hunt (among other items they must collect: a Winston Churchill cigar butt, one hair from Jack Benny's toupee, another from John L. Lewis' eyebrow, a salt cellar from Senator Pepper, a shilling from Sir Harry Lauder, a copy of the Missouri Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond...