Word: frugality
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...frugal potter with popular pots...
...December 2 will be known as the International Golden Rule Dinner, which means in short that every person who observes the dinner will dine that Sunday on a diet of bread, stew, and cocoa varied by some fresh vegetables, and these persons will save the difference between this frugal fare and the customary American Sunday dinner in order to give it to the Near East Relief for the benefit of the starving children of Armenia and Anatolia...
...Berum Novarum, May 15, 1891) on the conditions of labor. In it he rejected and condemned socialism and said " no practical solution of this question can be found apart from the intervention of religion and the Church." Wages must be sufficient to support the wage earners in reasonable and frugal comfort. Labor organizations are permitted...
...Philadelphia, "his eyes blazing and his jaw clenched," his flailing right resistless if unscientific, frugal Firpo battered Charles Weinert (of Newark) into pitiful unconsciousness in two rounds...
Author's Pajamas? Lewis St. Clair, popular novelist, arose from his perfumed couch, par took of a frugal breakfast of spaghetti and vodka, and stepped out into the glare of his prominence. His 5,000,000 readers, of varying sexes and doubtful ages, gave little excited shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle...