Word: frugales
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...locked up under Government seal. But what, the opposition Press wanted to know, was to be done about their accomplices? Was there one law for Haitians, another for Yanquis? Last week U. S. prestige definitely fell when Collector of Customs David P. Johnson of Hyde Park, Mass., an efficient, frugal man who had been stationed in Haiti twelve years, confessed to cheating Haiti in return for bribes from the Brothers Zrike...
...Russians, who constantly read in the Soviet Press that President & Mrs. Kalinin are extremely frugal folk and that she has managed successively a textile factory and two big collective farms in different parts of the Union during the past few years, Farmer Campbell's chatter would recall Moscow rumors that the President keeps a vivacious mistress who might easily be mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with...
...Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured, and she not seriously...
...five Studebaker brothers who joined in the business, Mr. Fish, 80, is now chairman of the company. White's entrance into transportation came at about the same time. First roller skates were added to sewing machines, then bicycles. The company was profitable, frugal Thomas White often saying that a man loses value if he is paid more than $5,000 a year "because he spends all his time thinking about how to invest it." In 1899 Founder White and his three sons were rich enough to buy a Locomobile steamer. Tinkerish by nature, they soon were at the boiler...
...Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes the spousal wrath, settles with a check and departs with the irate husband. That leaves the lovers alone again, but not very...