Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...
...Mice. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Willie Salas casually pocketed a three-foot bullsnake which was sunning itself on the running board of a parked car, announced to popeyed spectators: "I've got mice in my cellar...
...ailing arm got well. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seemed to be heading for the lower half. The biggest little effort would come from the Phillies, managed by onetime Yankee Ben Chapman. They had corralled every available has-been from both leagues, to try to get out of the cellar...
...grown, Taylor last week put on an exhibition entitled "Taste of the '70s." It includes a few good things (notably Frans Hals's Malle Babbe-Crazy Barbara, the Witch of Haarlem), coachloads of coyly draped marbles and candy-box oils. Most popular picture, rescued from the cellar for the occasion, was Pierre Cot's frothy Storm. Judging by reproduction sales in its heyday, Storm came close to being the Met's most popular picture of all time...
After the race, Gus looked gloomily at the untapped kegs in his cellar. In London that night there was little of the tipsy tradition that made it a duty of The Day to knock off at least one bobby's high-domed helmet. A girl at her first boat race asked her young man: "What does one do after a boat race?" "Go home," he said...