Word: frugalities
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Modern Living. Old W. L. Moody Jr. was renowned for his frugality, once rebuked an insurance executive for giving a stenographer a $5 raise after 20 years' service with the company. But Mrs. Northen was even more frugal. Until a few years ago, she had no modern appliances in her home; food was kept in an old-fashioned icebox. She had no radio, and her house was heated by a wood stove. She dressed plainly, wore black cotton stockings. She drove a 1928 Studebaker until her father heard that people were laughing at her and gave her a Cadillac...
Patriots had longed for one strong, honest man to come home and save them-and last week in Paris it was that man, Ngo Dinh Diem, who was setting the new, frugal tone and the pace...
Last week, as President Pusey (pronounced Pewsey') went about his new routine-up at 7, in his office by 8:15-he hardly looked like even Harvard's idea of a Harvard president. A spare, soft-spoken man, frugal in word and gesture, he presents a front that nothing seems to ruffle, a calm sort of dignity that only now and then unbends for the friendly smile or the quiet flash of humor. Yet his face is scarcely lined, his hair has only a few flecks of grey, and his springy step is more like that...
...contest. Regional devotion comes naturally to Esther Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever it lifts for a page or two, the sights and sounds of the New England countryside around 1830 come through in a kind of pastoral tone poem...
...Woman in the Kitchen. Stranger developments followed. United Aircraft, caught between its doubt of helicopters and its respect for Sikorsky's genius, financed an experimental direct-lift machine. Sikorsky was obligingly frugal; all his years of helicopter research cost United less than $300,000. His Vought-Sikorsky 300 was simply a framework of welded pipes with a 75-h.p. aircraft engine and a big flywheel that was linked by automobile fan belting to the transmission of a single, three-bladed rotor. Nevertheless, it incorporated most of the principles of today's Sikorsky machines...