Word: scrimping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young girl, she and her sister Alexandra had to scrimp and make over their old dresses, so poor was their father Prince Christian of Holstein-Glücksburg. Then by astounding good fortune the Great Powers adjusted the vexed Schlesvig-Holstein question by elevating impoverished Prince Christian to be Crown Prince of Denmark, later King Christian...
...Ozarks at Clarksville, Ark., needed-money, badly. The men's dormitory must be completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor. . . $115,000 will finish the interior. . .contractors need money...
...lady dainty as a bird for all her bulk, she sometimes wrote in a Japanese measure, light as a moth's wing, of love's pain. She contrived a grotesque, flitting tragedy from the conceited dreams of a scrimp-shanked philosopher, starving himself dead in the dusty ratruns of a cathedral spire...