Word: cellarful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, John Becchio, haberdashery thief, chased into a cellar by Patrolman Frank Miller, hid in a dusty corner. Patrolman Miller searched futilely, was about to give up when Becchio sneezed...
...member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...
...officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
...great shock to the Zlotniks, the filthy cellar "apartment" under the "L" a worse shock still. Mother Suré wore herself out as usual trying to make and keep a decent home. Before she died of cancer she saw many a sad change come over her beloved family: her eldest son married to a wife whose family looked down on the Zlotniks, Anshel no longer cantillating the Book of Esther, but slaving in a shirt factory, her daughter Dvoyrele living in sin with an impoverished sculptor. But Death saved her from seeing the culmination of her daughter's tragedy...
...Riverside Heights, N. J., Thomas Bart, his wife and two sons went to the cellar to spray sandfleas. Spontaneous combustion ignited the insecticide, blew the roof off the house, knocked in one wall, causing the first floor to cave in. The Barts were all seriously injured...