Word: frugales
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...compilers of reference books. Instead of giving or attending a stuffy birthday dinner, M. Clemenceau observed his birthday by ordering his chauffeur to drive hi mto the village of Les Sables d'Olonne. There he bargained vociferously with the vegetable and fisherwomen for the substance of a frugal meal. Returning to Bels Ebats, he dined alone...
Arrived at Assen the troops rushed for their foamy "marching draught." All too soon this cooling ration disappeared. Unappeased, the men called for more beer. Their officers, frugal, meticulous, refused to sanction further beerbibbing...
...every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little...
...shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...
...Pennsylvania he met and married in 1843 Anna Margaretta Schmitt, also an immigrant. Her father had been a burgomeister, an elder in the church. A year later their baby, Henry John, was born. In 1850 they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling...