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...Collegiate Montaigne Society, devoted to the memory of that Greatest Skeptic of Them All, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, warmly agrees that scratching one's head is good for more in the modern world than the dandruff fingernail test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Montaigne Society Lauds Editorial | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...four turned over their beads to a Buddhist priest in attendance. Tojo also handed the priest his glasses and his false teeth, to give to Mrs. Tojo. (He had already sent his wife a lock of hair and a fingernail clipping as mementos-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Seven Old Men | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Hidoi! | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Gold. In the U.S. and British zones, democracy has a fingernail hold, and production is rising. Ruhr coal- precious as black gold for all of Europe-increased last week to 274,000 tons a day, a postwar high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Rattle of Bones | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...month," she explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another looked blankly at the face of a corpse, but screamed when she saw its feet. The night before, she had painted her husband's toenails with red fingernail polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Pluperfect Hell | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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