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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Thomas Gradgrind was the greedy, calculating, utilitarian schoolmaster in Dickens’ ‘Hard Times.’ Avaricious people are ‘grabby.’ Uncommon. Examples-
Some hard, grabgrind Dickensian mileu where life isn’t worth living and where you cannot see beauty in anything…
gods4suckers.net/archives/2006/.../lets-play-spot-the-logical-fallacy/
As soon as anyone mentions hardship, work and self-development, industry, America starts to look like Grabgrind and the ‘blacking shop’.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/.../ac … education?
Have you a personal financial interest in this issue Mr Grabgrind?
forums.ec.europa.eu/debateeurope/viewtopic.php?p=195317&sid…
There is a satisfactory third way… which need not involve Marxism or Grabgrind American Capitalism…
www.ukdebate.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=1164.0
He doesn’t need to be “Mr Grabgrind” and they should expect to pay market prices.
icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/.../tm_objectid=14080142&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=perhaps-peace-not-lost-in-iraq-name_page.html
Both extracts come from the part where Mr Grabgrind asks … Mr Grabgrind is a retired wholesale hardware merchant who owns the school …
Last edited by klakritz (2010-06-26 15:07:13)
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Nice one. See also Kem’s Gradegrind.
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