Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...episode early in Author Gutwillig's book suggests its Sagantiquated antics: "Males and females were naked to the waist. The couples seemed to be licking each other's shoulders, necks, and chests . . . Each couple had a little can with holes in the top-like a large salt cellar-and from time to time they would stop their licking and shake out some stuff over each other ... I started sniffing and smelled cinnamon ... I focused on one of the standing couples, and the boy stopped, and snarled at me, 'Get your own date...
Time was when a Yale lacrosse contest at the end of the season meant little more than the traditional "blood game," since the Bulldogs were usually fighting for first place and the Crimson battling to stay out of the cellar. Tomorrow, however, the two teams will face each other in New Haven with identical 1-3 Ivy League records and a fourth-place finish at stake...
Lawrence threw. The Man swung. The ball got past Redleg First Baseman George Crowe for a sharp single. For St. Louis fans, it did not seem to matter that the Cards were in the process of losing another game (7-3), that they lay moulting and mute in the cellar of the league. Stanley Frank Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury...
...addition, one side is devoted to works for men's voices, and these, because of either the acoustics of Busch-Reisinger or the chorus' composition, have a propensity to descend into the cellar, producing a sort of grovelling and definitely un-vocal tone...
Yesterday afternoon they were at it again. Occupying the cellar of the Greater Boston League, the Huskies came up with a seven-run seventh inning to upset the Crimson baseball team...