Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that spelling gives...
...Targuist, little village on the northern slope of the Atlas Range, Abd-el-Krim, Riffian chief, was reported to be literally digging himself in for the winter. A subterranean refuge large enough to allow his automobile to enter and turn freely about has been constructed. And a star-shaped series of radiating trenches and dugouts extending for several miles has made of Targuist a stronghold which the Riffians are reported to consider impregnable. Cables assert that Abd-el-Krim has transported thither his treasures, arms, captives. Apparently Targuist is to replace Ajdir as his capital...
Mules never leave their subterranean coal-faced galleries except when their masters, the operators, expect long idleness. When, therefore, it was observed that most of the mulish multitude had been brought to the surface (including the mules of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., whose head, Samuel D. Warriner, is also head of the Anthracite Operators Association), the implication was obvious...
King Vittorio Emanuele opened to the public the newly excavated Forum of Augustus. In subterranean passages, the Royal party viewed the old State vaults which are said greatly to resemble those of the present Italian Treasury. Commenting upon their similarity, Finance Minister Alberto de Stefani laughingly said: "Like our vaults, there is no money in them...
Much feeling was manifested at a recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...