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Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag in 1907.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scrimped a little, cried a little, prayed a little in private, but outwardly lived the life of the smug in body and soul.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie