Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criminal and was hiding out. But Ivan Kudrin, a police inspector in the tradition of Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich, became suspicious. He learned that Udod had no criminal record, but that Serafima's family had. The paint job, too, interested him. Kudrin dug around Serafima's cellar and found Udod's body...
...unexpected defection highlighted the opening round of the house debate on the controversial loan, and it arrayed with the Republican opposition such hitherto-staunch administration supporters as Reps. Adolph Sabath, (D), N.Y., dean of the House, Hugh Delacy, (D), Wash., Emanuel Cellar, (D), N.Y., and Vito Marcantonio...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...they beat the Pirates and climbed out of the National League basement, the Phillies wrecked the locker-room. A cellar door was burned in celebration. Manager Chapman broke a rule and served the team beer. Four days later they climbed to sixth place. For the first time people began buying Philly pennants from peddlers outside the park. When a Sunday game with Cincinnati was called after eleven innings with the score tied, State Assemblyman Joe Scanlon, sensing a popular issue, set about changing Pennsylvania's Sunday Blue...
...manager booked her into a fancy Manhattan cellar, La Martinique. She hated it. "The first show everybody's eating shrimp while you're singing your heart out. The second show they're all slightly tight. The third show they're loaded." She went from there to the Paramount Theater and later a 26-week contract alternating with Perry Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records...