Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poor Man's Appetite. In Milwaukee, Ralph Buchanan broke into a tavern at dawn, got hot lifting bottles of champagne out of a wine-cellar window, decided to have a quick beer, was still searching for a bottle-opener when cops came...
...still shy and tense with strangers. He avoids cocktail parties as a waste of time, but loves dining out with people he knows, keeps a well-stocked cellar for home entertaining. (Quipped Friend Alexander Woollcott when Harriman became ambassador to London: "Oh to be in England now that Averell's there.") Like many a millionaire, he is thoughtless about pocket money, one day had to borrow a nickel and a penny from his legal counsel to get a candy bar and a handful of peanuts (his lunch) from a White House vending machine...
...varsity baseball nine, firmly, but not happily, occupying the Eastern League cellar after its dougle loss to Dartmouth Saturday, meets an off-and-on Tufts here at 3:45 p.m. today...
...Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...
...varsity baseball team took undisputed possession of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League cellar last Saturday by dropping a crucial doubleheader to Dartmouth, 6 to 3 and 3 to 0, and the chances are that Coach Stuffy McInnis and the 18 players who saw action would like very much to forget the whole thing...