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Shopgirl readers who were melted to delicious tears by Hans Fallada's mannikin novel of the depression, Little Man, What Now?, found his next book, The World Outside, much less to their liking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Playwright Williams' instinct for the theatrical jugular makes even this mannikin play bleed greasepaint.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this one it is a ferocious mannikin with unbrushed hair, a flat, angry voice and a perpetual frown.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards.

From Time Magazine Archive

A simple method of making a modelled mannikin for fish follows: Have the freshly skinned body or sketches of same at hand.

From Taxidermy by Pray, Leon Luther