Word: cellarful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over England for the 325th time, stalwart citizens burned effigies of Guy Fawkes last week. Mr. Fawkes, 325 years ago, was employed by some Roman Catholics to ignite a quantity of gunpowder secreted in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament directly under the Throne of His Most Protestant Majesty James...
...tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...
...Mandan, N. Dak., Edward Loran often told friends he would fool his wife by pretending to hang himself. Last fortnight his body was found suspended in his cellar, the feet one-quarter inch from the floor. Edward Loran had misjudged the rope-length...
...group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have nothing to offer them." Vintner-Professor Rose, slick-haired, mundane, long famed among his friends in New Haven for the excellence of his cellar, has set down a valuable store of good, plain advice on the preparation and care of dry red wines, dry white wines, live wines...
...central scene is the quiet Moscow drawing-room of old Professor Alexandrovitch. Here the story begins and ends; from this peaceful room it follows the threads of many interwoven lives to their differing destinies ? death at the Front, suicide at home, execution in a shambled cellar. Ehrberg was killed suddenly by a German shell, though Tanya, the Professor's granddaughter, loved him. Stolnikov came back from his battery with no arms and no legs, and lived as long as he could bear it. Astafiev had to bully his drunken killer before he could get the death he wished...