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Word: cellarer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cellar they stumbled over a bag holding two human heads and a mutilated leg. They found another bag stuffed with a cloven corpse. In No. 21's furnace they found four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Rue Le Sueur | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gilded Grandpa | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: By Bits & Pieces | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Safety. In 1605 Guy Fawkes, hoping to kill James 1, stacked gunpowder in Parliament's vaulted cellar. He lost his head instead of his King. Since then, the King's way has always been prepared by a search of the cellar. Ordinarily, this is a job for the Beefeaters, who go about it in resplendent tabards of scarlet and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Indispensables | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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