Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucky Strikes. In Cornwall, Ont., Raymond Larkin stomped downstairs to investigate his flooded cellar, ran happily back with a 17½-inch pike...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
Bats in the Bedroom. Author MacDonald lists some of the things she never got used to: the hen; the gasoline lantern; the outhouse at night; no radio; no telephone; "bats hanging upside down in the cellar, flying in the open bedroom windows . . . making my skin undulate in horror"; dropping-boards and chicken lice; wet, cold, soggily miserable winter, "and spring so warm, so lush and fragrant that I wanted to roll on my back and whinny...
Paradoxically, the only teams up to full strength were the Rangers and the Maple Leafs, both hopelessly bogged in the league cellar. But they could offer home-town fans plenty of real blood & thunder on the artificial ice-and the rabid fans...
...candidate was told to assume that he had been caught riffling through secret files in a government office; in ten minutes he would be grilled for an explanation. Then, facing a spotlight in a dark cellar room, he got an expert crossexamination...