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...dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste but not a toothbrush, may have his shoes repaired but may not buy shoelaces. He is not supposed to ride in a boat (but excursion boats do a rollicking business at every seaside resort). He is not supposed to travel more than five miles away from home, nor go outside his own parish...
...Cheese, Two Prices. Pinay moved his office to the ornate Hotel Matignon, the official residence of Premiers. But he refused to move even a toothbrush or clean shirt into the comfortable apartment maintained there for the chief of the government; he preferred to stay in his unpretentious five-room apartment, to save himself the rigors of the moving-out day which comes to all who move into the Matignon. As was his habit when a Deputy, he locked up his desk almost every weekend and took off to St. Chamond, to look in on his tannery and, as plain...
This week Antoine Pinay was back on the rostrum to face more confidence votes, his crinkly hair neatly combed down, his left hand tugging primly at his waistcoat in a characteristic gesture. Another crisis was at hand. Antoine Pinay was gladder than ever that he had left his toothbrush at home, and not in the Premier's palace...
...play wanders through a whole drawing-room world of deception and self-deception, of complacent male stupidity and bland female betrayal. The wit less dazzles than disconcerts, as in the Maugham test of true love: "Could you use his toothbrush?" But The Constant Wife, in any case, is less a triumph of wit than of tone...
...after, and yet the most dentist-conscious nations have the most trouble with their teeth. Dr. Hans H. Neumann, a Columbia University researcher, seems to feel that all civilized man can do about it is to sell his teeth dearly. Dr. Neumann declares with Spartan glumness: "The incidence of toothbrushes in different countries is in inverse proportion to the incidence of sound teeth, and poor oral hygiene is predominant in areas with exceptionally good teeth." (Dr. Neumann was thinking particularly of a sight he saw in Samoa: a native nurse, who had lost several teeth and had many fillings, trying...