pinchfist

Example Sentences

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Off popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed.

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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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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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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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