pinchfist

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He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent.

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But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role�that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist.

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He is the tightest, stingiest, string-saving, pinchfist Administrator the U.S.

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Added to the usual list of farmer-fattening measures, these last week clearly demonstrated Congressional scorn for any policy of peeling-paring, pinchfist economy.

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In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd.

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