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Word: cellarer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREAKISH FOUR-FOOT TULIP ASTONISHES ALL RADCLIFFE | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

Neat little trucks from Holland's, locally famed Negro caterer, pulled up at the cellar door of the American Philosophical Society's Georgian brick building on Philadelphia's Independence Square last week, disgorging trays of fried oysters, crab cutlets, apple salad and fancy cakes. To sleepy loungers in the Square this was a sure sign that the Philosophical Society, oldest and one of the richest of U. S. scientific bodies, was holding its spring meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophers in Philadelphia | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Died, Cora T. Hebner, 55, famed polyandrist (five husbands), wife of Polygamist Will Hebner (19 wives); by her own hand (poison); in a Pocahontas, Ark., jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Cornell's early jump into the lead has all the pickers open-mouthed. A year ago the Big Red ended the season in the cellar, but in its first two encounters this year defeated Yale, the defending champions by a 6-3 margin and then white-washed the second place Crimson nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pitching Is Major Weakness of Second Place Crimson Nine---Ingalls Inactive | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

Faced with the liveliest mystery in Arkansas criminal records, police were last week looking for Will Hebner, dead or alive, and for his brothers, to see if they could identify the corpse in the Hebner cellar. Informed by the Deputy Prosecutor that her Miami friend, Grover, had hoped to marry her, grey-haired, 55-year-old Mrs. Hebner, indicted last week for Hebner's murder, betrayed maidenly confusion. Said she: "Well, I didn't know that. It certainly was nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cupid's Messenger | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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