Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...
...Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...
Julian West, 30, was intense, nervous, troubled with insomnia. In the old West mansion in Boston, he built a soundproof subterranean sleeping chamber, hired a mesmerist to put him to sleep. On the night of May 30, 1887 he was particularly upset. Strikes in the building trades had stopped work on his new house, delaying his marriage to lovely Edith Bartlett. At 9 p.m. Julian went to his quiet room and was put into a trance calculated to last until 9 the next morning...
...bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...