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Bashford Dean was born in New York in 1867. Scion of frugal Dutch and English ancestors who had lived in the vicinity of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson since the 17th Century, it was his good fortune never to want for money. His wealth was lucky for him, for no one has ever yet made a fortune from either of Bashford Dean's hobbies, ichthyology or armor...
Punching one of the pale buttons on his big dark desk, II Duce dictated to the secretary who hurried in, the gist of what newsorgans would say next day all over Italy. With this chore attended to the Dictator ate his frugal lunch, returned to his office, locked the door. Then for a time passers-by heard the wild, crashing strains of the Mussolini violin?his "Wooden Woman" as the instrument is called in the argot of the populace...
...slot-doorbell-that was what frugal Dutch huisfronwen were having carpenters install last week beside their furiously polished brass doorknobs...
...Proportional to the number of her 103,000 inhabitants, that is per capita, Iceland now has the largest foreign trade of any nation whatsoever ($19,912,400 exports in 1928, and $15,008,000 imports, thus leaving a favorable trade balance of $4,904,400 which is more than frugal Iceland's na- tional debt). Moreover, neither France nor England has as many telephones per capita as Iceland. Amid such evidence of soundness and prosperity there was simply no proper reason, last week, why the Bank of Iceland should be on the brink of ruin ?except mismanagement...
Highly pleased by these suggestions, rich but frugal Privy Councilor Mizumachi proceeded to marry his daughter on the cheap. Last week they were honeymooning at a Japanese inn rated as third class...