Word: miser
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Heroism is a salamander virtue. Sometimes fear wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report...
...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...
...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...