Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outraged Londoner was confused. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered one wife. He poisoned her, then cut her in pieces and hid her in the cellar...
...blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from the earthquake that destroyed the city...
...search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit...
...lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week by Rodzinski follows the scene in which Ekaterina (Lady Macbeth) murders her father-in-law. The second describes two drunken moujiks as they discover her husband's body hidden in a cellar. When audiences can see the spooky doings on the stage they may be impressed by the Shostakovich screeching. But the orchestra bits played last week left an impression of dressed-up bogeymen too noisy to be terrifying...
...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...