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Word: cellars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clary, as friends in concentration camp had suggested, and started work in a rundown boite in Paris' Place Pigalle, doing a blackface turn a la Jolson. In 1949, Clary was brought to the U.S., but "I wasn't very good." It took him two years in the cellar circuit to get good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Belter | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Toots Shor's cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...jail, loses a leg in an inept attempt to escape. Released and returned to England, he plays the Red hero and is lionized by the jackals of the party line. Most of them are arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they are all fighters with the mouth who like to play at social revolution between bouts of faddish chitchat and casual fornication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighters With the Mouth | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Adams' three victories this year betters their total output in the past two years. Last year they shared the league cellar with Dudley, both teams losing six and winning none...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Shuts Out Deacons, Ties Eliot for League Lead | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...knocked over the Giants three straight in their last series, which practically put the Dodgers in. St. Louis will show in third, while the rest of the teams just existed to draw away crowds for the Dodgers. Mildly surprising was the rise of the Cubs from the the 1951 cellar to fifth...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn and David L. Halberstam, S | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

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