Word: gooder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfaction of doing their weekly Christian duty, but the active Christian layman knows that church attendance must be only the beginning of his week's witness. His constant problem: how to serve the church well without having 1) his business associates look askance at him as a do-gooder, or 2) clergymen complain that he is trying to take over their ministry...
...large in her life, and she is apt to describe her favorite priests as "living saints." But to religion, as to everything else, she brings a measure of humorous detachment: she once dubbed her flossy Beverly Hills parish church "Our Lady of the Cadillacs." She is a tireless do-gooder and works actively for some 30 charitable and civic activities. Usually she volunteers for the least popular job of all-raising money...
...exclusive one, but to those who have not yet been able to penetrate Dickens' wordy, comic society Williams offers extensive introductions. His thirty-five characters are each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...
...interesting as any you have published is the wire from H. Keith Thompson in the June 23 issue concerning the German war prisoners of Spandau. I do not know Mr. Thompson (thank God), but I presume from his letter that he is a typical American do-gooder, or a Christian determined to out-Christian all others in turning the unslapped cheek...
Dumas became operating vice president of Southern Bell in 1938 and president in 1943 (last year's salary: $75,000). Go-getter Dumas is also an enthusiastic local do-gooder, which is what Bell likes its executives to be. Said one friend: "Hal is just naturally a boy scout-as well as a good businessman...