Word: skinflints
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...characteristic remark. The egomaniac was, in fact, a modest man. The vain Lothario had been married almost 50 years to the same woman. The skinflint was a great tipper...
Alger was no Charles Dickens, but he shared Dickens' social indignation, if not his gift for expressing it. "Fair" and "just" are two of his favorite words, and genuine feeling enters his prose when he describes a skinflint like Snobden or a hypocrite like Gideon Chapin, his chief clerk- Alger's American Murdstones and Uriah Heeps...
Before the match, the M.I.T. team disguised themselves as mediocre players and told the Harvard team that the varsity squad had not reserved the courts until 7 p.m. When the designated hour rolled around, the skinflint Engineer manager finally consented to "lend" Harvard some squash balls to practice...
What a way for a U.S. Senator to treat his family. For one week, all that Michigan Democrat Philip Hart gave his wife to feed the two of them and four of their children was $33.86. Skinflint? Not at all. The Harts were simply learning what it is like to be a family receiving an Aid to Families with Dependent Children allowance (about 25? per person per meal). Mrs. Hart discovered that the family fare ran heavily to beans, cheap vegetables and bread, with an occasional tough old rooster for the stew pot. "I can see how people would just...
...past midnight on Valentine Day, 1948. Their son was born the following September, and the next year they separated. Gossip columnists, who had promoted the union as a real-life sequel to Cinderella and Prince Charming, billed it subsequently as Beauty and the Beast, casting Win as the brutish, skinflint millionaire...