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...boozing in a fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with a wench, buxom Gretchen Schmaltz. Originally Fraulein Schmaltz appeared to have favored and sipped beer with a tuxedoed Ever Loyal. When he excused himself for a moment, Gretchen responded to the ogle of a dashing old Hamburger Journeyman, clapped his broad black hat upon her head, called for more beer and presently begged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Journeymen v. Crooks | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...decolletage playing blind man's buff and shrieking DON'T HELP ME! DON'T HELP ME! to a row of gallants cringing away from her fat lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes in black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whoops Sisters Man | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Well!" said the wench, opening the door two inches, "what name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Before Her Majesty had time to utter a second queenly remark, her chauffeur came bounding two steps at a time, and uttered curt words which carried conviction to the Cockney wench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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