Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...London's famed "Gold Rush" (TIME, Feb. 22) continued, the English hastening to sell their hoarded gold sovereigns (worth 20 shillings) for 28 paper shillings. Tens of thousands of English gold coins were shipped every day to Paris, where frugal Frenchmen bought and stuffed them into socks, clocks and crocks...
...clean & neat & frugal...
...going to be a Salvation Army lassie now the War is over," said frugal Mother MacDougall...
Widow MacDougall is now 65, grey, pretty. She is still short, plump, neat and clean. Though frugal (waitresses in her Grand Central restaurant pay $10 a week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative...