Word: thrifting
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...another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They are encouraged to perform deeds of honesty, kindness to animals, thrift and purity. Each is furnished with a scorecard on which are printed such exercises as: "I respected the rights of animals. I was loyal to my country's laws. I was not 1) vulgar 2) profane, in speech. I did not take anything without the owner's consent. I tried...
...press headlined "Coolidge Feels Saving Lash," "Coolidge is Victim of Own Thrift," etc.. apropos of the fact that the President has had the White House budget reduced $12,500. Incidents of the retrenchment: replacement of paper drinking cups by old-fashioned glasses; no free pencils for newspaper correspondents; reduction of the number of towels placed daily in White House office lavatories from 175 to 88; orders that all lights be turned out promptly when not needed; repeated use of manila envelopes for documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White...
Another striking figure was that of an Ethiopian "scout", Dr. Charles, who held forth in the eighteen-twenties. He was the precursor of two modern institutions, the Phillips Brooks Old Clothes Drive and Max Keezer. Through his diligence as a collector and his extraordinary thrift, he became the source of supply for students and even professors in need of "small loans". It is said "he was always ready to place his funds at the disposal of the College...
Human nature does not change much, but societies to better it continue to spring up all the time. The American Board of Applied Christianity sponsors the latest effort--a school of rational living, teaching thought and thrift...
...marks the end of the policy of raising loans to meet normal charges- a policy which threatens to engulf France in financial quicksands. Once the deficits due to previous budgets have been regulated by a loan of liquidation, any appeal to the national thrift must have but one object-consolidation of the floating debt and completion of the restoration of the devastated region...