Word: miserable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Maria's friends called the Mexico City police to No. 66. Inside, amid the dust of 50 years, were fine paintings and massive mahogany furniture. Also in the house were the bruised bodies of Angel and Miguel. Investigating the deaths, the police found the richest miser's hoard in their memory: $4,000,000 in deeds, bank notes and jewels, stuffed in drawers and between bedsprings...
...communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since . . . he scooped the world on the smash yarn that President Harding was dead...
Love and the Inquisition. Pedro was redhaired, blue-eyed, broad-shouldered, hot-tempered, chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power...
...Like a Miser...
...picture of the miser who thinks he is achieving genuine wealth by curtailing consumption until he starves, simultaneously adding to his pile of gold, is far from a grotesque illustration of some of our policies in the past...