Word: scrimping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earn, scrimp, save and toilsomely amass the Chinese equivalent of seven U. S. dollars may take an industrious Shanghai coolie seven years. Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple...
...General Conference last May, remittances now depend upon the amount of money in the treasury. The treasury is not likely to be chockfull, unless Methodist laymen fill it, before local conferences begin meeting and raising funds late this month. Never before has the Methodist Church been thus forced to scrimp. Three bishops of foreign areas were obliged, lacking passage money, to linger in the U. S., probably until Oct. 1 when payments will be made...
...eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...
Strangely enough the last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first...