Proportionately five times as many boys as girls take up apprenticeships, and most of the girls are apprentices in hairdressing andmanicure.
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I saw elderly men sitting there looking the picture of health, saw people who were well toileted, well perfumed and well manicured.
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They sign on for a certain number of years, and they massage andmanicurepeople for long hours daily.
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Altogether there may be half a dozen different countries involved in the make-up of these articles included in a composite toilet ormanicureset.
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They include helicopters, massage,manicure, osteopathy, acupuncture, cemeteries, party walls, taxis, squares and fairs.
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Proportionately, five times as many boys as girls take up apprenticeships—and most of the girl apprentices are in hairdressing andmanicure.
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Manicures are not perhaps quite as important to health as chiropody, but they are important for decent and civilised living.
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I do not know when the system of these establishments, nominally intended formanicure, massage, and other objects, started.
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I suppose one might almost say that it exists in the tens of thousands of golf courses, even if only to a manicured countryside.
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In those moods she is a formidable woman, her manicured and expertly varnished fingers fencing in front of her as she puts her points over.
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In the catalogue there is advertised a toilet set or amanicureset.
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I do not think anybody would regard amanicureset in the possession of a lady as a luxury.
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Are we going to set men manicuring or shampooing them, or putting frills on them?
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It cannot be particularly amusing to spend your days massaging faces and hands and manicuring nails, but they become in time quite skilled workers.
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Take, for instance, in the case of the jewellery trade, which advertises extensively a variety of commodities, such articles as a toilet set or amanicureset.
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