Word: skinflint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jepsen, who made a campaign issue of his opponent's foreign policy. Senator Mclntyre, a member of the Armed Services Committee and a provisional supporter of SALT II, will be replaced by former Airline Co-Pilot Gordon Humphrey, who opposes SALT and says he plans to be the "biggest skinflint" in Washington. Haskell and Hathaway were two of the most liberal members of the Senate Finance Committee. A few mainstream liberals were elected to the Senate: Bill Bradley in New Jersey, Paul Tsongas in Massachusetts, Carl Levin in Michigan, Donald Stewart in Alabama. But they do not have the experience...
...began cutting costs where he could, notably by limiting the company's number of performances in Manhattan, where operating costs are very heavy. That is just fine with Taylor-at least for now. "The businessmen leave me alone artistically," he says. "And besides, I happen to be a skinflint myself...
...miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and he finally receives the chance to take revenge on the skinflint. He forges himself into the old man's will while his uncle helplessly looks on, eating his heart out but too sick to call for help. Yet even here Malle's directorial listlessness--intentional, no doubt, but unendingly strange--keeps us from enjoying this last, sadistic triumph. What was never more...
From the outset, each sister was clearly unique. After Mary Lyon, "the founders of the Seven proceed in a descending spiral of unlikelihood," says Kendall. Sophia Smith, for example, inherited a fortune from a skinflint bachelor brother and intended to open a school for deaf-mutes until she was told that there were not enough of them to fill one. After rejecting a proposal that she make a bequest to Amherst-she believed that professors there were subversives bent on controlling central Massachusetts-Smith settled on starting the college, which opened in 1875. Matthew Vassar, a Poughkeepsie brewer, simply wanted...
...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...