Word: gooder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gooder. In Schenectady, N.Y., Edward J. Jeffries got 50 days in jail after he admitted that he had walked around town tearing overtime parking tickets off other motorists' cars...
...window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan's annulment from the Countess Marie Anne Wurmbrand-Stuppach...
...Henry Wallace, a brushoff: "A somewhat inconsistent 'do-gooder' in politics, unwilling Ox more probably unable to give straight answers to straight and relevant questions...
...naturally has a hard time convincing his fellow citizens that he is more than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World War I comes along, and nearly kills himself treating the town's poor...
Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...