Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, jampacked busses. The grapevine added details to succinct communiques reporting the setbacks in Albania and the shake-up in the High Command (see p. 28). There were uncon firmed reports of rioting. In Rome there was grumbling over ever-increasing prices and the severe rationing of already frugal meals. Spaghetti, flour and rice were added to the list of rationed foods. Any farmer withholding his crops from compulsory storage was ordered imprisoned for a year...
...Marvelous!" exclaimed Minnesota's President Guv Stanton Ford. "Beautiful!" said Walter A. Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Said the university administration, anticipating outcries from frugal Minnesotans: "It costs no more to buy purple chairs than dull brown ones...
...play fits the simplicity of the Playhouse. There is no scenery except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses, gardens and churches of Grover's Corners more effectively than could an M. G. M. location...
THIS DEATH WAS MURDER-March Evermay-Macmillan ($2). Widow Haskell had three daughters, two sons, money. Then she married a gentle, frugal architect-artist, Erich Humphrey. After her death, Erich was murdered. An absorbing play of brother-sister-mother motives (not to mention lawyer and caretaker problems...
...hard decision for Lindsay Warren. At 50 he has many a good legislative year ahead, and the folks back in North Carolina's First District have always been satisfied. A bullnecked, leathery man's man, he thrives on the frugal, quiet outdoor life of Washington, N. C. ("Little Washington"), where he lives with his wife and three children in a two-story frame house on Main Street. He likes weekend trips to Little Washington; sitting on the rail fence in front of Arthur Mayo's office on Main Street and talking politics with the boys; fishing...