Word: misereant
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...chief charms of the story; in consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes...
...summary: WORCESTER HARVARD 1937 Moses, Parcinski, lf. rf., White Sulivan, rf. lf., Miser Seaver, Wojciechowski, c. c., Gray Alex, lg. rg., Witherspoon, Mason Greenberg, rg. lg., Stephenson...
Score: Worcester 39, Freshmen 34. Goals: Gray 6, Sullivan 5, Greenberg 4, Mason 3, White 2, Moses 2, Stephenson 2, Seaver 2, Wojceichowski 2, Miser 2, Alex 1, Parcinski 1. Fouls: Wojceichowski 3, Gray 2, White 1, Witherspoon 1, Sullivan 1, Seaver 1. Time: Four 10-minute quarters...
...Storm," a story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors in public. A little boy with fever lies waiting for death all day because he does not know...
...will cut off Merchant Amirhanian's children, created a trust fund which a group of Anglo-Indian lawyers were instructed to build up during the next 50 years. This year the half-century is up and prudent investments (chiefly in Indian real estate) have swelled Miser Amirhanian's fortune to the colossal total of $120,000,000. Diligent, the trustees called at Alexandria, Egypt upon white-haired, tremulous Marianne Djanikian, 80, told her that as the granddaughter of Miser Amirhanian she can now claim his fortune under the terms of the will...