Word: miserably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast power. His frugality is a wall he has built around himself deliberately to stave off people who want to have a piece of his colossal wealth. I don't believe for a moment that he gets any enjoyment out of his money. He's just a miser-period...
...Parking Miser. A parking meter that automatically flips its flag to "Expired" as soon as a car moves out was put on sale by the Traffic Master Co., Culver City, Calif. In a twelve-day test on two San Francisco streets, the device, which is operated by a photoelectric cell buried in the parking space, increased parking revenues 39.6% since the next car could not use unexpired time. Price: around $37.50, plus $10 for installation...
...money. Gold, caskets of gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...
...nearly four-hour-long play about the Tyrone family-actually the young O'Neill, his father, mother and elder brother-occupies a single day in 1912. The touchy, hard-drinking father-a gifted actor who had let himself dwindle into a successful matinee idol-is a miser...
...Rope, by Louis Mennini, 35, Eastman faculty member and brother of Manhattan Composer Peter Mennin. The plot is based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill. An old miser dangles a noose from a barn rafter, hoping his son will hang himself. Instead, the son decides to torture the miser into revealing his money's hiding place. Composer Mennini spent a summer learning the ins and outs of opera composition at Tanglewood, and used his knowledge well. The rub was the music; it seemed too charmingly melodious for the gruesome plot...