Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled as far as he could from the railroads, and sought out the oldest shepherds and peasants he could find. When their banshee-like wails could not be transcribed into the conventional musical scale, Bartók adopted five-and twelve-tone scales. His counterpoint was as orderly and frugal as his life, but in concert halls it came out dissonant...
...response was heartwarming, largely because Eire's women often weary of waiting for Eire's frugal swains to propose.* Sixty colleens offered themselves as Bergman brides. To choose among them was more than the town clerk dared. So on Feb. 14 the Kilkee town commissioners will put all the names in a hat. The lucky girl will get first chance at writing to the sighing Dutchman...
...Hastings fishermen protested against the encroachment of an amusement park on their fishing grounds (see cut). ¶ In London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 40 night nurses, peeved with their frugal fare, staged a lie-down strike. They stayed in bed an extra hour...
...only countries with major fleets left are the British and ourselves," said shy, frugal Raymond Spruance. "We're certainly not getting ready to fight each other...
Thrift and Gifts. Until zooming taxes pared actual income, frugal Bachelor King saved hefty chunks from his public pay. He saved even more when, in the years following 1910, he served as an industrial counselor, for fat fees. Aside from his present salary and investments, he has two piddling sources of income. Royalties from his books still trickle in. And on a lake on his 100-acre Kingsmere summer estate, some 15 miles north of Ottawa, the Prime Minister has built a few sturdy cottages, rents them to vacationers...