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Rollicking Storm Troopers swept into a barber shop at Beuthen near the German-Polish frontier last week, seized pretty Manicurist Lotte Feingraeber. "Are you engaged to a Jew? Don't lie to us!" they roared. "Ja" admitted Lotte Feingraeber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tar; Hair Dye | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

With a will the Nazi youths shaved the manicurist bald as an owl. Smearing her with tar, they hung around her neck a sign I PROSTITUTED MYSELF TO A JEW, dragged her up & down the streets of Beuthen until they were tired, finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tar; Hair Dye | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...Chicago, Norma Thursen, chosen as Wisconsin's Typical Outdoor Girl at the National Boat and Sports Show, turned out to be a manicurist in a Chicago Loop barber shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Queen, who for more than a year has been a crucial offstage character in Freeman F. ("Amos") Gosden and Charles J. ("Andy") Correll's radio skits, surprised the radiaudience by speaking out for the first time. Since last Christmas when Andy, who had met Mme Queen as a manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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