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...trouble with the new boom is that so few maids are well-trained. As the quantity increases, the quality of the work has slipped until U.S. housewives often put up with inefficiency that no businessman would stand for. The washing machine, the mangle, and the modern stove are as baffling to some maids as a Univac electronic brain; the housewife herself operates them, or they get broken. While Americans will put up with high prices indefinitely, the time may be at hand when employment agencies would do better to set up training courses for maids instead of an inquisition...
...white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink of water, we had to draw it out of the well; before we ate, we knew that wood had to be chopped for the stove"-but the glory of the Old South for such as the Russells was that poverty was no social handicap if the family stock was good and if the family showed the right kind of regard for Southern tradition...
...Oxford students," said one Borstal boy, "would all be poshy types. And I dare say they thought we'd all come in carrying choppers [razors] and machine guns." As the days passed, suspicion melted away. From the moment the camp's cooks of the day lit the stove to fry the breakfast eggs, the two groups worked and played together, soon developed the camaraderie of foxhole cronies. They toured nearby castles and monasteries, gradually began to unburden themselves. Says one Oxonian: "When you sit over the same potato pan, peeling, you get to know a man. The most...
...sentence in the June 17 review of The Wayward Bus says "the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe him." Please tell your Cinema reviewer that I am blonde and a little dumb but I know that the 1957 Hotpoint range plays Tenderly when the roast is done. What's more, my husband has sold quite...
...wash out. The bus stops dead in a pothole. The driver and the daughter end up in a barn. But at the catchall conclusion the driver goes back to his wife, the daughter marries a basketball coach, and the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe...