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They were the Bunch, wise and beautiful and amusing; they were Bohemians and urbanites, accustomed to all the luxuries of Zenith: dance-halls, movie-theaters, and roadhouses; and in a cynical superiority to people who were "slow" or "tightwad" they cackled: "Oh, Pete, did I tell you what that dub of a cashier said when I came in late yesterday? Oh, it was per-fect-ly priceless!"
I'm no tightwad, and I don't believe in packing everything away into a white marble mausoleum, but still a gink kind of whispers to himself that some day he'll be furnishing up a kitchen pantry of his own." "Oh!" said Gertie. "And let me mention in passing," continued Gus, winding the ribbon bow around his finger, "that in the last hour or so that whisper has been swelling to a shout."
Of course a doctor gets a regular stated amount! Sure! A thousand one month and lucky if he makes a hundred the next." "Very well then, a percentage. Or something else. No matter how much you vary, you can make a rough average for " "But what's the idea? What are you trying to get at? Mean to say I'm unreasonable? Think I'm so unreliable and tightwad that you've got to tie me down with a contract?
She told Minnie that I told her that Minnie was an awful tightwad, and Minnie told me Carrie had told her, and of course I told her I hadn't said anything of the kind, and then Carrie found Minnie had told me, and she was simply furious because Minnie had told me, and of course I was just boiling because Carrie had told her I'd told her, and then we all met up at Fulton's his wife is away thank heavens! oh, there's the dandiest floor in his house to dance on and we were all of us simply furious at each other and Oh, I do hate that kind of a mix-up, don't you?
By golly, I feel like a tightwad though, not taking you." Through all this restless July after she had tasted Bresnahan's disturbing flavor of travel and gaiety, she wanted to go, but she said nothing. They spoke of and postponed a trip to the Twin Cities.
His lambent eyes were stupid, he moaned, he rubbed his forehead. "Have they been eating something that's been bad for them?" she fluttered to Miles. "Might be bum water. I'll tell you: We used to get our water at Oscar Eklund's place, over across the street, but Oscar kept dinging at me, and hinting I was a tightwad not to dig a well of my own.
"The old tightwad!" I exclaimed. "It was your cooking, sure, that made him loosen up that way." "Tightwad nothing!" she declared indignantly. "You won't think he was tight-wadded when you read this here letter he left for you. He told me what was in it, and I've just been busting to tell it to Beth, but I waited for you to know it first."
He had been called many things loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot but he had never before been called a flirt. "He is wicked, isn't he, Mrs. Dawson? Don't you have to lock him up?" "Oh no, but maybe I better," attempted Mrs. Dawson, a tint on her pallid face. For fifteen minutes Carol kept it up.
"What about the pueblo yonder?" asked the man with a jerk of his head toward the town. "The hoosegow is old and the sheriff is new." "I got ya," said the man, nodding. "We better be on our way." "I would think so." "You're a hell of a guy, you are," whined the boy. "'On yer way' from you an' not so much as 'Are you hungry? What about a little hand-out?" "Nothing doing." "Tightwad!
In view of your vessel's clearance " A low moan broke from Cappy Ricks. "Tightwad!" he reviled. "Old Alden P. Tightwad, the prince of misers! He thought he'd add a couple of ten-dollar bills to his roll, so he encouraged his skipper to hire a lot of interned Germans to work his ships in neutral trade!
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