Word: frugales
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When the late Dr. Guy Winfred Bailey, after 20 years as president of the University of Vermont, died in a Boston hospital last October, frugal Vermonters applauded his administration. They applauded too soon. He had raised the university's buildings and endowment from about $1,000,000 to nearly $9,000,000, left it with a trifling deficit of $33,502 on the books. But last week the university's financial affairs were in such a tangle that nine of the 18 trustees (among them: U.S. Senator Warren R. Austin) resigned and Vermont's Governor William...
...politics; in a period when Russians were Bolsheviks, Whites, or something in between, Alexander Alexandroff listened to arguments, rolling innumerable cigarets, said nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint fringe, stumping along with his blackthorn cane to a nearby restaurant, observing Sunday by changing his tie and eating a better meal...
...dark, jampacked busses. The grapevine added details to succinct communiques reporting the setbacks in Albania and the shake-up in the High Command (see p. 28). There were uncon firmed reports of rioting. In Rome there was grumbling over ever-increasing prices and the severe rationing of already frugal meals. Spaghetti, flour and rice were added to the list of rationed foods. Any farmer withholding his crops from compulsory storage was ordered imprisoned for a year...
...Marvelous!" exclaimed Minnesota's President Guv Stanton Ford. "Beautiful!" said Walter A. Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Said the university administration, anticipating outcries from frugal Minnesotans: "It costs no more to buy purple chairs than dull brown ones...
...play fits the simplicity of the Playhouse. There is no scenery except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses, gardens and churches of Grover's Corners more effectively than could an M. G. M. location...