Word: thrift
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...stage set for the annual production of the "Beggars' Opera" by the Seniors, assisted by 1924. "With Music and with Mummery; with Morrice dance and Pageantry" will the graduating class supplicate the Freshmen for the customary wherewithal. The Seniors are under promise of good behavior; should Yearling thrift cause them to forget this promise, all future pictures will be debarred, and all future pienics endangered. Therefore let the latter play their part with largess and goodwill; it will prove "bread upon the waters" with a particular aptitude for successful navigation...
...into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate wages and in some instances practically monopolizes a given field. Moreover, those who do not become a public burden through lack of work, are apt to develop a thrift which impels them to return their savings to their native land...
...modest $50,000; yet even this was extravagant, judged by the new standard. The ceremony on March 4 will be truly "record-breaking", for it will require almost no expense. It will be an example of practical economy quite unusual in this country which is ever ready to talk thrift, but is slow to practice it; Mr. Harding not only talks but acts. If he had wanted an elaborate inaugural, it is safe to say that the funds would have been found. But he chose to play the part of a true leader; if economy is to be the watchword...
More important still, the new administration, which has pledged itself to be free from Democratic extravagance can ill afford to open its four years with a costly splurge. The times call for economy and thrift; Congress has set an effective example to those who are still reeling from the intoxication of war-Iino prosperity in limiting as it has the appropriations for the inaugural ceremonies...
...advance their own interests by appealing to the passions of ignorant men. There is always a jealousy of those who have by those who have not, and when a poor man is told that his poverty is not due to laziness, ignorance, lack of ability, or lack of thrift, but to the alleged fact that he has been oppressed and robbed by bankers and profiteers, he is ready to excuse himself and place all the blame on somebody else. By constantly hearing the great bankers of the country referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that...