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...resort of Guagno les Bains. Caviglioli turned out to be a squat, middle-aged fellow with a weather-beaten face, two pistols in his belt and two nephews, similarly armed, at his elbows. They appeared first at the Grand Hotel. The proprietor made no resistance but sent a frightened chambermaid scurrying from room to room to warn the guests to lock their doors and window shutters, stay inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again Caviglioli | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Dirty rat-nutty judge-hoodlum-lazy blood-sucking jobber- William Halitosis Thompson-blustering loudmouth, irresponsible mountebank-blubbering jungle hippopotamus-lurching, shambling imbecile-flabby jowls of a barnyard hog-two jackass ears, a cowboy hat and an empty space between-chambermaid in a ranch bunkhouse-skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago Circus | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

From the office of brusque Minister of Interior Béla de Scitovszky de Nagyker went forth last week a general decree:"No woman who has not attained her 40th birthday shall be employed as a chambermaid in any hotel in the Kingdom of Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Tempted | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Tammany's Rothstein | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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