a miserly grouch who believes that ‘Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart’. He is ...

"The Ghost of Christmas Past ... dignity and decency," he added. "Merry Christmas, America. Merry Christmas to all of you. And may God bless you all. And may God protect — may God protect ...