Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the enemy broke through, eight of the signalmen and three other soldiers, with Tuffy along, had to hide in a cellar for ten hours as German armor rolled through the town. Panzermen were stationed in the house overhead. Two Germans looked into the cellar but saw nothing. They heard nothing, either, because Tuffy seemed to be holding his breath like his buddies...
...over and began to bark playfully. The signalmen tried to quiet him, but Tuffy took it for play, and barked again. There was a quick council, conducted in monosyllables, then one of Tuffy's masters reached out in the dark and strangled him. The silence in the cellar was deeper and heavier than ever...
...second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
...natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...
...with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical maps annotated in handwriting believed to be Göring's own. A meal prepared in the kitchen had never been served...