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Reflectively the old man scrapes a yellow tooth with a black fingernail. "Comrade," says he, "a very old man shouldn't fret over things bygone or things to come. I only want to do business. Then all will be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A WALK IN YENAN | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...tomboy (or "muscle moll" as some sportswriters preferred to call her) that she was in the days of the 1932 Olympics. That was an era when her specialties were baseball, basketball and track. Now trim, athletic and 32, she carries 145 Ibs. gracefully, wears silly hats, nylons and red fingernail polish when she dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whatta Woman | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Washington studio, the décor is pinball-palace modern, badly beat up. The carpet is worn through, the stained orange velveteen seats are mostly out of whack. Cigaret butts smaller than a little fingernail mat the floor, and through the thick smoke appear big wall signs: "No Smoking." No self-respecting Frenchman would let such a challenge pass, and almost everybody (except babes in arms, of whom there were several) puffs away industriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The French Touch | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Last week Linhares was still in the Copacabana. He had stayed out of airplanes, appeared in good health, had not hired a cook. Said one taxi driver: grateful ex-Cook Rosa must be blessing Linhares' fingernail parings, sacrificing white chickens at dawn-working a countet-macumba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Working a Macumba | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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