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Even magazine article checks, he indorsed over to "the League." Honest-frugal-sincere. Damned good scout...
...have been born no children for 21 years.* Yet as Her Majesty re- tired at Buckingham Palace one evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit...
...political training-for they have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while Chang Tso-lin banquets among his dancing girls. From the cold north of Manchuria and Peking comes the barbaric Mogul to drive back if he can the Cadet who has conquered half China-and last week Great Britain seemed to favor the Cadet...
Calvin Coolidge Most frugal...
River Tragedy. One morning last week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...