Word: frugales
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...almost no one, is that he is a born comedian. His producers discreetly shelve scripts he painfully prepares for them. He idolizes the comic ease of Bing Crosby. His associates readily forgive Eddy such blatant clowning as hiding from the director under Jeanette MacDonald's hoop skirts. Frugal, suspicious, Eddy is nevertheless as honestly congenial as a puppy...
...superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack of interest in design, could scarcely fail to note the monumentally simple success of his portraits, the linked flow of limbs and bodies in The Swimming Hole, the crisp, frugal elation of the 16 horses' legs in The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand...
...European Theater of Operations the U.S. Army has bestowed 89,477 medals-82,280 of them in the Eighth Air Force. Altogether, in all theaters, the U.S. Army has passed out approximately 175,000 medals in World War II. The U.S. Navy, more frugal with its awards (and with about one-third the Army's personnel...
Food. The average German's diet is still sufficient but extremely frugal. Lack of stores and salesclerks makes shopping ever more difficult. Housewives and workers (many are both) are urged to trudge twice to the shops, leaving their orders (written, of course, on Government-prescribed forms) in the morning, fetching parcels in the evening...
...Strong in character: "He is affable but he cannot be made to do what he doesn't want and he may be killed, but may not be humiliated. He is simple and frugal in his living, and his faults or mistakes may be gently explained but not abruptly pointed out to his face...