Word: frugales
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Seeing her husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris...
...they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa...
...Hearing early reports that the income tax revenue was less than had been expected this year, President Coolidge sent word around to the Government departments (in effect): "Be cautious. Be frugal. Economize...
...19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory, but that was only a passing indigestion...
...been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses in Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department as an undergraduate. The Yale News was probably not aware of the fast that this frugal array of courses, combined with a corresponding number of Latin courses, and a couple of courses in ancient history, and the necessary intelligence in wielding the facts contained therein leads occasionally to a degree summa cum laudte Now the truth is out. And yet I suspect that...