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...novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...
...city's French element was numerically supreme but economically impotent. Despite occasional outburts expressing dissatisfaction, the French were influential only in the sense that a French maid is influential in getting the dishes washed. With the arrival of the Depression, some of the Calvinists found themselves washing their own dishes in the gloomy loneliness of their homes high up the slope of Mount Royal...
...parboiled," has not opened a book in 20 years, simply lolls in the sea and sun, and only worries how his next meal is coming, culinarily speaking. When the doctored fruit reaches grapefruit-size, Gourmet Joe poaches a fig. "This is how things tasted to Adam," he tells his maid delightedly, "before Eve introduced him to ignobler pleasures and spoiled his palate for ever more...
...clod," he said, suddenly capable of speech. "Why do you have to go changing the complexion of my maid-pale peace at this hour of the morning. I feel sick...
...among the world's most adroit tax evaders, there would be sharply increased income taxes and a new method of assessment according to "external signs of wealth." Regardless of what a taxpayer may declare, the government will add $1,200 to his taxable income if he has a maid, about $1,300 if he has a small car less than five years old, another $1,200 for each racehorse he owns. And if a man is unwary enough to possess more than six such external signs of wealth, the assessors will automatically double all their arbitrary additions...