Word: frugales
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...back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated oil to relieve the congestion in his chest, prepared his frugal diet (vegetable soup, mashed potatoes, stewed fruit) and tried ineffectually to keep him from writing...
Returning from a weighty conference at the summer palace of Little Tsar Boris, frugal Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff last week bounced in the back seat of his ancient, rattling limousine while his chauffeur wheeled the car down the rutty road to Sofia. Near Varna, not far from the palace, the Liaptcheff limousine swerved round a curve, slewed against the glossy high-wheeled cart of a rich Bulgarian peasant...
...liberal were U. S. citizens at the time of Japan's great earthquake of 1923, so frugal were Japanese administrators of the relief fund, that last week a great modern hospital was inaugurated in Tokyo-built and permanently endowed entirely from surplus monies of the American relief fund...
Named the New Fraternity Hospital, it is of steel, theoretically quakeproof. It stands beside the park where 32,000 people perished during the earthquake. It cost $1,500,000. The frugal administrators still have two millions of U. S. money with which to endow it permanently as a free hospital, containing 248 beds, facilities for 600 outpatients...
...Present too were white-ruffled, silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu at what pious Italians have come to call Peter's Table, was, while not frugal, surprisingly simple-consommé, filet of sole, roast guinea fowl, asparagus hollandaise, assorted ices, sweets, cheese, fruit. The envoys quenched their diplomatic thirsts with glasses of white Capri, red Barolos, tawny Marsala and Gringo-lino, and Italy's champagne, Asti spumante, from Peter's Cellar...