Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first period over badly battered Lowell and went on to win easily, adding scores in the third and fourth quarters. Harry Booth and Dowey Archambeault paced the small Gold Coast squad, and the Bellboys' futile offense got nowhere against the victors' line. Joe Cannon provided some spark but the cellar-dwelling eleven never caught fire and were never in the game...
With all this I agree, except that I would place Franklin Roosevelt in the cellar with Grant and Harding. . . . Grant was a great soldier, even if he was a bad President; Harding achieved success as an editor, starting at the bottom in American tradition. F.D.R. had no personal achievement of any kind, being born with a silver spoon in his mouth...
...answer: a Swarthmore chemist named Walter Steuber (of Houdry Process Corp.) had decided that the easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as "Mickey Finn"), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art got to thinking back, and then went rummaging in the cellar. Result: the biggest display yet of the Museum's permanent collection. "Painting and Sculpture," some 375 items strong, was also the Museum's clearest statement, to date, of its own taste...
...believe, might cause their subjects to become money mad), make and administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...