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Word: cellars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastes four together. Starting with a light pencil sketch, he lays in his flat, thick colors layer on layer, while keeping the contours crisp. Burra's end results generally have the sharp complexity of cactus, and the effect of an unpleasant, totally unexpected laugh sounding from below the cellar stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock Dispenser | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...tables are black, yellow, orange, and red while the whitewashed walls sport an occasional brick of blue or green. But even without the rainbow effect, Patisserie Gabrielle is a colorful spot. The air in its decorated cellar carried the scent of two dozen types of pastry (French of course) and six types of coffee. The chef, Leon Marty, is an expert with butter-creams and Napoleons, but a novice with bread and rolls--a true artist...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Six Steps Down | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...involved in a teen-age vice scandal, his wife admitted receiving $11,000 from a city contractor, and the contractor was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city. For a time, both D'Alesandro and the Orioles were flat on their backs: the ball club in the cellar and the mayor in the hospital with a nervous collapse. Eventually, little Tommy D'Alesandro jumped out of bed and into his elevator shoes to run for a third term. Last week the Baltimore Orioles were down in the basement again, but Baltimore's Tommy D'Alesandro, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Big-Leaguer | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...notify the father. Where can he be? Far from the hospital, he has just installed an ingenious electronic warning system in the house of a gangster. He and his criminal client are admiring it when suddenly the alarm sounds; a time bomb has just been shoved through a cellar window. At the very moment the doctor in the hospital snips the umbilical cord of the baby girl, the young father', sweating with tension, snips the bomb's wires and saves the gangster's life. This is a high point in a movie called Wiretapper, designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Wiretapper | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Dark and musty cellar...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey jr., | Title: Gullible's Travels Thru Harvard | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

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