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...Czechoslovakia, citizens wondered if they were next on the list. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, was enjoying a "rest cure" at the famed curative spa of Carlsbad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Blue Serge in the Back Room | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

According to the shoe-shine boy at Felix' Shoe-Shine Spa, tips come in all sizes, "from the large to the small, small economy size." Meanwhile, mecca for the penurious continues to be the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria, where a bright yellow sign, with big red letters, declares, "No Tipping, Please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Waitresses, Hack Drivers, Bootblacks, Barbers Term College Students 'Cheapskates' | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

...wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called Sinking-in-the-Ooze. The chief inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Steady, Barker | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...broad-as-Bevin parody of a Laborite, who "flips arahnd" laboring his "haitches" and belaboring the landed gentry: "The juke knocks 'is tea back and puts the saucer dahn, and 'e says, 'Sid,' 'e says, 'I'd like ter give this spa of yours the flippin' once over!' 'e says. Then ... she says, ''Ear! 'Ear!' she says. She's very fond of all this, this old-fashioned clobber, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Steady, Barker | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond static monosyllables in praise of one Williams, a baseball player from San Diego...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: Circling the Square | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

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