Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...
...visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying, 'Have you forgotten me?' Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant. . . . Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking to Holloway station." With his permanent amazement at his own rise to eminence Mr. MacDonald commented: "Could any of you, with all your capacity to forecast, then have said to both of us, Gentlemen...
...week His Holiness held continuous conferences with prelates, gave audiences to hundreds of pilgrims at a time. He broke the busy days with short promenades after frugal lunches in the Vatican gardens...
...hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis on large tumblers of iced orange juice, heaping plates of grapes, and, of course, rolls with Brazilian coffee...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...