pinchfist
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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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He does not do this because he is a pinchfist or is reluctant to win the war, but because he is a man of solid sense, who was raised to respect plain arithmetic.
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A majority seemed to agree with the Senate's biggest apple-grower and economiser, peeling-paring pinchfist Mr. Byrd.
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He is the tightest, stingiest, string-saving, pinchfist Administrator the U.S.
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No. 1 New Deal pinchfist is Harold Le Clair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, known to one & all as a very tough man with a dollar.
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