Word: frugalities
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...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...
Last week Americans in Paris were imitating frugal Frenchmen who roll their own, getting the makings from old butts. Three butts make a full-sized smoke. A man with only two butts has to adopt another makeshift. He borrows a third from a friend, rolls his cigaret, smokes it, gives the butt back for further...
With his irony aimed squarely at Senator Byrd (who did not want Term IV), the President made an announcement. The Jan. 20 inaugural would be a frugal, unpretentious little ceremony held on the south portico of the White House. Why, said Franklin Roosevelt happily, the whole thing could be done for about $2,000-a mere 10% of Senator Byrd's extravagant maximum...
...chronicle of a Norwegian-American family in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Mama is unfolded retrospectively (from a corner of the stage) by daughter Katrin, now a successful writer. The kitchen-for-parlor home life that Katrin looks back on is dominated by firm, frugal, warmhearted Mama (extremely well played by Mady Christians) who, to give her children a feeling of security, pretends that the family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories...