Word: pinchfist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week the American Hebrew received many a Jew's congratulations for accomplishing this deletion. Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist, Shylock, chicanery, duplicity, crafty.* Mr. Blumenthal, 47, sent his article to Thomas Irving Crowell, 65, Protestant. The 'B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other...