Word: scrimping
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...lady dainty as a bird for all her bulk, she sometimes wrote in a Japanese measure, light as a moth's wing, of love's pain. She contrived a grotesque, flitting tragedy from the conceited dreams of a scrimp-shanked philosopher, starving himself dead in the dusty ratruns of a cathedral spire...