Word: misere
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When Robin Hood rapped a wealthy miser on the pate with his quarter-staff and removed his pouch, he usually gave the money, or a large share of it, to the poor. It is much the same beneficient, kindly spirit which pervades the soul of the famous Polish bandit, Mucha. Nothing the dismal condition of his country's finances, he has made out an inventory of his year's "swag", and sent the list plus the income tax upon the amount to the government...
...gentle reader seeks pure water, the eagle pure air, the miser pure gold, so Frank A. Munsey seeks purity in the news; and yet- on the front page of his admirable newspaper your eye meets these soul-searing statements...
Richard Kean, in excerpts from famous plays, gave impersonations of richard Mansfield, as Shylock, in the Rialto scene from the "Merchant of Venice", and John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and then gave his own act as "Peter and Miser." Although the scenes were well done they lacked completeness and the necessary accompanying atmosphere to give satisfaction...
...junior college. The big universities are taking money under false, pretences," he says. The University professor "in merely filling his position in order to earn his living so that he can go on accumulating knowledge. He has no human interest in his students. He is an intellectual miser, not a teacher...
...fulness of life whether they met the end of existence now or at some later period in those forty years. It will make no difference at all sixty years from now, when even the most cowardly, though he board his life as a miser hoards gold, counting it repeatedly that the tale may be complete, will have died from senile decay in a feather...