Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than Ohio's new Kenyan Review, The Southern Review has applied no standards save excellence, has been subject to no political pressure whatever (Louisiana's politicians are apparently oblivious of the magazine). In more than one instance, its support has enabled a distinguished writer to live in frugal independence...
...During and after such dinners you must provide speeches or music. The more frugal-minded societies provide music. They can get quite a good soprano for two or three guineas plus her dinner which she eats behind a screen or in the next room (because of the stories); but if she is old and ugly your diners moodily finger their wine glasses and murmur 'Hell,' and if she is young and charming they are continually popping behind the screen to see if she's got everything she wants. In either case it's all rather distracting...