Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book size. Daughter Rosemary admiringly reports how Father sought his pot of gold in the laundry business, a trolley-car line, a railroad, a bank, a dozen other get-rich-quick schemes. One of the few genuine high points is the story of the lady who reserved half the cellar when she rented her house, and went back to live in it during hard times...
...Dewey had learned discipline as a boy in Owosso. (Given a new tricycle, he was told that, if he fell off, he would lose the tricycle for a year. He did, and the tricycle went into the Dewey cellar for a year.) In his racket-smashing days in New York, he had learned how to drive home a point unsparingly. Now his discipline and his relentlessness combined in a new confidence...
...arms which Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First U.S. Army had thrown around Aachen in a classic bear hug had posed two deadly questions to the Germans : 1 ) should the ancient spa (and modern textile and coal mining center) be defended to the last cellar, as a Stalingrad-like model for the German home front? 2) was it also the focus of the main Allied offensive to smash the Siegfried Line...
Last week, the Democrats contributed a cartoon showing Governor Dewey speaking from a platform that concealed a fatuous-looking cellar gang. Included in the gang was Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the news-slanting Chicago Tribune, and cousin of Daily News Publisher Joe Patterson. Captain Patterson forthwith called off the Battle Page. His reasons: below-the-belt hitting, fear of libel...
...famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...