Word: thrift
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...fitted particularly for the problems of this rushing 20th Century. A great amount of propaganda has been sent out about his ' cautiousness,' ' thriftiness ' and ' silence,' and the women, I believe, do not find these particularly commendable virtues in a President. Caution is easily synonymous with lack of courage, thrift often degenerates into stinginess and silence does not always connote wisdom...
...pupils now have accounts with their school bank, which last week showed "a balance of $8,348.39." The work of the bank is done by 25 students picked for their diligence, integrity. The President this year is a girl-Margaret Stein. Its purpose is to encourage thrift; but, secondarily, it is calculated to develop the desire and ambition to become a banker...
This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift. He writes of tears and heartaches, of virtue rewarded, and of red, red blooded love. He represents beauty to the multitude, and to the multitude beauty is too often artificial flowers, but how important to them! Mr. Guest's poems will be forgotten tomorrow; but as ballads of the times they cannot be neglected. His collected poems, under the revealing title The Passing Throng, will be published this season...
...bulk of the nation's correspondents will be greeted by the beaming face of George Washington, properly labeled; a smaller number for three cents receive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln; every citizen staying at home during the summer will get post cards bearing an object lesson in thrift, the picture of Benjamin Franklin. Because the ignorant foreigner must not be overlooked, he will receive on his letters a rotogravure in color of Theodore Roosevelt. Those who insist upon buying their clothes and house furnishings by mail will be edified by a print of the Yosemite Valley or of Niagara Falls...
...Thrift, proper economy, nor parsimony nor meanness, and hard work would be excellent watch wards for the academic year 1921-1922, which we are this morning in accord once with ancient laws of the college, at chapel service formally opening, and Bowdoin College has never been in better shape to do hard effective work. President Sells of Bowdoin as quoted in the Boston Herald...