Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there. Mindszenty brought food for us. He came to us several times a day and comforted us with apostolic words...
Carnegie used to order Dewar's Scotch whiskey in 50 or 60-gallon casks. Reporters, touring the wine cellar, found pigeonholes marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie...
Porter designed a galleggiante-an ornate danceboat seating 150-for the leading Venetian hotel. This pleasure dome plied the canals regularly, with French chef, wine cellar, Negro jazz band and $10 cover charge. As a small boy, Cole had fallen in love with Venice when he saw a backdrop painting of the Grand Canal in the Peru (Ind.) theater; he still thinks it is the best place to live...
...other half of Lowell is living in the cellar of the B League basketball with five losses; Kirkland dominates this division, now this year, after five successive wins...
...over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...