Word: miser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...
...wrote "To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir...
...Incident. A miser, who distrusts his socialist nephew, screams for joy out of the window when imperial troops rout the revolutionaries. A stray bullet catches him in the chin...
Spirit. "To the tens of thousands of production slaves out of whose very hides are tanned the hundreds of millions of Ford profits, he is looked upon as a mean, heartless miser and a hypocrite par excellence. A great spirit permeates the Ford organization (from the foremen up) known as the 'Ford spirit...
...first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty called for more necromancy and repentance...