Word: frugality
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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...
...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...
...production dropped to 25% below the 1930 level; one out of three dinky French freight cars was idle; sales of manufactured goods abroad had halved; industrialists said they saw no chance for profits under Popular Front reforms. Worst of all, the savings of millions of frugal Frenchmen were endangered by an unchecked flight of gold. Drastic measures, sure to be unpopular, were necessary if France was to be saved...