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Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713–1740) despised the baroque glitter of his parents’ court, and subjected the previously easy-going Berliners to a frugal, rigid concept of Preussentum (Prussianness), that is, unquestioning obedience to the ruler and his administrators, and sharply defined class distinctions, affirming the supremacy of the aristocracy and officer class and that of soldiers over civilians in general.
The affairs were made up of wishes collaged with phone calls and unsatisfying visits, letters, and diary entries, gifts of art, and the frugal lunches of weak tea and store-bought cake on which Cornell physically subsisted.
Will Tina's notorious lavishness irk the frugal duo?
Suppose you want to be frugal in the future.
In an age of open and (ostensibly) frugal public administration, the Secret Service is an anomaly, an agency that operates with nearly as much secrecy as the CIA and spends almost as freely as its heart desires.