Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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House baseball ended with three final games yesterday afternoon. The totals found Eliot and Winthrop tied for first place, Kirkland a close third, Adams fourth, and four other Houses tied for the cellar...
...waiting for all her life, and her husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe, Don Pedro II of Brazil, Hawthorne, and Dickens. But in 1861 Longfellow's bustling happiness was cut short...
...found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged bit of cellar with a 2 by 3 ft. window, was as neat as ninepence...
...Cold Room. One day last week he had his chauffeur drive him over to the Village. The River Rouge was swollen with rain. The old paddle-wheel riverboat, Suwanee, one of his relics, had sunk at her permanent anchorage. The river had submerged the lowlands, flooding the cellar of Ford's own mansion. The big house was without electricity or telephone service, heated only by open fires...
They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...