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George Bernard Shaw understood that principle perfectly when he penned his 1916 play Pygmalion: His street-urchin heroine Eliza Doolittle is unable to better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She??s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...
...assists from seniors Katie Johnston and Julie Chu. She made it 3-1 at the 5:13 mark, beating netminder Ashley Mayr off a feed from freshman Kathryn Farni. Vaillancourt threw in an empty-net goal with just over a minute left to finish the trifecta. “She??s holding up her end of things,” Sifers said of Vaillancourt. “That line—with Julie Chu and Jenny Brine—has so much potential. We switched up lines earlier in the year but Coach [Katey Stone] decided to move...
...dusted” with extra helpings of powder over every available surface. Amelia Bedelia keeps her job by virtue of a valuable non-verbal skill: world-champion baking prowess, which she shrewdly parlays into Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’s favorite dessert, lemon meringue pie. When she??s in trouble, she knows on her own exactly what to do— pop a pastry into the oven—but this is sadly not always the case in real life...
...confused, with cucumbers. Lourdes, on the other hand, reads a to-do list like a Harvard student and executes accordingly. My host mother’s clear preference for the fluent help translates into a clear difference in their salaries. Julia’s employment options are sharply limited (she??s fortunate, in fact, to have a job in Argentina’s tight labor market), and she earns less than 400 (US $133) pesos a month. Lourdes, on the other hand, works about twice the amount Julia does and commands a salary about three times higher...
...She??s succeeded in doing what people had wanted for ages but no one thought was possible,” she added...