Word: tightwads
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...California play Washington University-crowds separated, not by their allegiance, but by their pocketbooks. For whereas 75,000 football fans with their class-conscious ladies passed in an orderly fashion through the gates of the Berkeley stadium, some 25,000 merry rooters climbed up an elevation known as Tightwad Hill, which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi...
...Bounder, Tightwad...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...