Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However, the professor continues to sling his provoking social theories into the intellectual boxing ring, and although they get slammed around quite...
...went off near by. Every window in the Astor house blew out; Lady Astor's clothes were covered with powdered glass. Incendiaries landed on the roof. She and her guests ran up and doused them with sand. The going got thick; for a time they went into the cellar. Later they came out to douse more incendiaries. Early in the morning, when the all-clear sounded, Nancy Astor dragged herself upstairs and fell into bed in her windowless room...
...back. Mrs. Logan found $17,500 and Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke in at dawn. Drawing on cellar stocks with which to withstand the longest siege, he cried: "A man's house is his castle. I defy anyone...
Something else that has never been done before in Hanover was the announcement of a coaching staff such as that which was pulled out of the hat last night. We can already see the Harvard Crimson, from their Ivy-League Cellar, tut-tutting the choice of All-Americans Bevan and Barley, the drafting of a Cassiano from the pro ranks. For the Crimson has often seemed to operate on the principle that Ivy League football is all right so long as it isn't good football...
Crimson wrestling hopes were dashed for a fourth successive time Saturday when the grapplers ended up in the cellar of the Eastern Intercollegiate League, at the championship tournament held at Columbia...