Word: stingier
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...Stingier than Scotsmen, Swiss taxpayers make it their business to enforce respect for the property of Swiss Federal Railways which they acutely feel to be their own. Last week one Christine Maple, a pretty Los Angeles young woman on her way from St. Moritz to Paris, stanchly resisted the efforts of Swiss passengers to make her take her feet off the opposite seat. When the train pulled into Zurich the enraged Swiss handed her to a Swiss gendarme who handed her to a Swiss judge who fined her 50 Swiss francs...
...away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with a virago wife, threatened more & more...
...jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...
...grounds school classes will began about February 1, Admiral do stingier stated, and will be held at the Massechusetts Institute of Technology, on Tuesday and Thursday of even Professor E. P. Warner '16 the areonautical department of M. R. T. and officers of United States Navy will give the instruction, while Lieutenant George R. Pond, commanding officer of the station at Squantum will be in charge of the school. Students may choose between an early spring and a summer class in flight...