Word: curmudgeon
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Once this famed stamp, the "British Guiana 1856" belonged to Philippe la Rénotière von Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost...
...Collins, getting into the game in the ninth with his team eight runs behind, swung three times at nothing. These and other able Yankee gentlemen fell victims to the wiles of a man whom the sports writers have in past seasons mentioned alternately as a rake and a curmudgeon, the grim Grover Cleveland Alexander. Long before the game he declared that he would win. He chewed tobacco and went to sleep on second base. But with the young bats of his cardinal-hatted friends rat-tatting in his ear Grover Cleveland Alexander won the game. Score: St. Louis...
...glasses. The food cooled on the silver salvers. Every guest stood trembling in the corridor outside the locked door, listening to the thud and rowdydow of fists, waiting for the best man to unlock the door and step out. Would the boy be too much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name...
...that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been amply justified...
...East vs. West matches William Johnston, whose defeat on an off-day by the dependable tennis of Dr. George King (TIME, Aug. 10) caused many sport enthusiasts to proclaim him a doddering curmudgeon, went out to contend for a place on the U. S. team with Vincent Richards. Playing with the familiar wizardry that has made him, for many years, the most popular player in tennis, he met Richards' cannonball service with flashing drives, confused his net game with precise lobs, fought through an exhausting match...