Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's Museum of Fine Arts four years ago. Museum officials could not bring themselves to refuse the picture, or to hang it either. It was wide as a barn door, and looked far too dull and dark for a genuine Tintoretto. They stored it in the cellar...
...building almost saved the University the trouble of destroying it. A fire broke out in the cellar during the night and only the fact that a student doing some nocturnal research called the Fire Department saved the whole building from an unplanned demise. As it was, all the rooms were covered with soot, some of which has been holding out against cleaners for a quarter of a century...
...committee, U.S. Steel Corp.'s stocky Benjamin F. Fairless last week got in some advance licks. "Up to now . . ." said Fairless with unaccustomed dryness, "I've spent most of my time in O'Mahoney's doghouse, but next week I move to Emanuel's cellar...
Safe Deposit. In Peoria, Ill., at the depth of the coal strike, truckmen delivering a load of precious coal to the William H. Friedrick house aimed at what they thought was the cellar chute, learned too late that they had dumped it all into an abandoned cistern...
Legrand had never been there* but for 15 years he had lived in French Morocco. His house in the city of Rabat (pop. 160,800) had a cellar studio where he worked through the heat of the day. It served as a base for sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed...