Word: stingier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighter from the start. She fought her father because he was stingy. She fought her grandfather, who owned 20 farms, because he was even stingier. After a delicious sneak into Altoona to see Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...
Collectively, the Varsity finished second in the League in team fielding with an average of .952 or only 22 errors out of 457 total chances. The Elis were stingier, however, made but 14 errors out of 456 TC, and led the League in that department with an average...