Word: misereant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been taxed almost out of their gullets, the cigarettes out of their pockets, and the gasoline out of their tanks. It is hardly worth the bother trying to get rich at home, and even if an Englishman succeeds, he is forced by exchange controls to spend like a miser abroad. In addition to all these torments, the Selective Employment Tax went into effect last week...
...National Asset. The President covets his precious hours along the Pedernales the way a miser covets gold. Because of their effect on him, the 438 sun-baked acres of the L.B.J. ranch may be as much a national asset during the Johnson presidency as all the vaults in Fort Knox. To some 75 reporters attending a ranch barbecue - and John son's first live TV press conference in nearly a year - the President just did not seem the same man who had walked out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue five days before...
...from the Miser. Son of an auto polisher in an Omaha used-car lot, Halfback Sayers set a Big Eight rushing record by gaining 2,675 yds. in three years at the University of Kansas. Chicago Coach George Halas, a notorious miser, wanted him so badly that he laid out $150,000 to sign him for the Bears...
...this collection of short novels and stories. Anthea Mortlock seeks herself despite her grotesquely snobbish mother, who wants her "in society." Anthea finds brief ecstasy in a scramble on the sand with a local rebel. But he indifferently leaves town, and she relapses into marriage to a rich miser of the affections. Her husband is mercifully killed in an automobile accident, and she is left the money to wander the world, a rich exile with her looking glass for judge...
...spoken "Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven." By insisting on being cool and levelheaded, Grizzard removes the nervous system of the play; by insisting that Hamlet be normal, he makes he one demand that the most complex character in English drama cannot meet. The Miser, by Molière, the Guthne troupe's second offering, almost visibly chased away the lingering ghost of a sad Hamlet. Director Douglas Campbell has made a stylized harlequinade of Molière's comedy of avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats...