Crossword-Solution: MANICURIST 10 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

She happened to be in a Broadway manicure shop one day when she heard a woman talking with the manicurist about fall styles, and she was all attention when she heard the customer say, 'You remember Mademoiselle Violette's--that place that had the exquisite things straight from Paris, and so cheaply, too? Well, Violette says she'll have to raise her prices so that they will be nearly as high as the regular stores.

She says the tariff has gone up, or something, but it hasn't, has it?' "The manicurist laughed knowingly, and the next remark caught the woman's attention.

And then there was the hairdresser and the manicurist and the masseuse, and the tailor and the bootmaker and the jeweller; and then one absolutely had to glance through a newspaper, and to see one’s children now and then.

Next morning was Easter Sunday, and Peter met his manicurist by appointment, and they went for a stroll on Park Avenue, which was the aristocratic street of American City and the scene of the “Easter parade.” It was war time, and many of the houses had flags out, and many of the men were in uniform, and all of the sermons dealt with martial themes.

One day another face came back to him, the face of Miss Frisbie, the little manicurist who had spurned him because he was a Red.