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longtime television foil,
particularly as
cantankerously combustible,
tightfisted bank
executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's
second television sitcom...
- and
several recurring characters were
added including Mr
Rabinsky (a
tightfisted Jew), Mr
Kittel (Renu Setna) a
Muslim shopkeeper, Winston's cousin, and...
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makes a $5,000
raise for her. The
other players,
aware of Ballinger's
tightfisted,
cautious nature, all
reluctantly fold. Mary
collects her
sizable winnings...
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disliked all of his
family because they were Negroes.'
James Hughes was
tightfisted, uncharitable, cold. Wallace,
Maurice Orlando (2008).
Langston Hughes:...
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stated that
while ideally no
landlords would die in the process, "If some
tightfisted landlords hang themselves, does that mean our
policies are wrong? Are...
- Halasi [hu]
writes that Szcześniak
presents Jews as
informers for the tsar, "
tightfisted hyenas" and
arrogant oppressors of the
Polish people. Szczęśniak gives...
- and the Estates, whom he
considered to be
unbelievably nonchalant and
tightfisted about a
threat to
their own country's security. Philip's
death in Burgos...
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known for his wit and charm. At Astor's death, the
immensely wealthy—and
tightfisted—man left
Halleck an
annuity in his will: of only $200 annually. His son...
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upstart studio Golden Harvest,
rather than
accept the Shaws'
notoriously tightfisted standard contract, was a
factor in
Golden Harvest's
meteoric rise and...
-
tradition portrays Hisham as "a
conscientious and efficient, if
severe and
tightfisted, administrator",
according to Blankinship. In the view of the historian...
