Word: thrifting
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Abby-Delight was eldest of a big New England brood. Her father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually...
...etiquet but French thrift blocked this scheme. Finally His Majesty decided to play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...
...Much of this deficit France has incurred by "political loans" to countries which are her satellites?a state of affairs which the Bank of France was brusquely curbing last week (see p. 18). With unemployment severe, but less so than in other Great Powers, and with French thrift bulwarking the private citizen for some time to come. Premier Herriot could & did turn the first thoughts of his Cabinet toward world problems...
Getting children to save their pennies has been the chief work of the National Thrift Committee, which promotes an annual Thrift Week. "To overhaul U. S. education." the Committee was last week reorganized. On its advisory board are now many U. S. educator-bigwigs. A new rallying-word, "Ethonomics" was coined for the Committee by Dr. John Bates Clark, 85, retired Columbia economics professor. Said he last week: "The important fundamentals of ethics, economics, and civics should be taught not as unrelated subjects, as in the past, but as the composite cornerstone upon which our social_ structure rests. . . . The present...
...screwed out of one clubhead and into another at a moment's notice.* Brought out by Donaldson Manufacturing Co. of Glasgow, such clubs make it possible to play without a caddy, by carrying one shaft and a small container of clubheads. Practically, they are less for thrift than for convenience. If he breaks a favorite club, a golfer can screw in an identical shaft from another club without leaving the course. British golfers-including the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Prince Arthur of Connaught-have used "Rangefinder Rapier clubs," approved by the Royal & Ancient St. Andrews Golf...