Word: gooder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with bandits and pirates that Douglas Fairbanks Sr. would have been embarrassed to find in a movie script, and enjoys a love affair that is as notable for its acrobatics as for its passion. He is neither an outcast nor a misanthrope. In fact, he is a heroic do-gooder whose office just happens to be a forked tree...
...newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious for Wilhelmina's taste. It became known last week, despite the Handelsblad's attempt to suppress news of its loss, that Reader Wilhelmina had written the daily a sharp letter of reproof...
...mild in manner, mellow in voice, retiring with all but his closest friends. He is an Overseer of Harvard, like his father before him, and a conscientious do-gooder who actively aids many a fund drive and charitable organization. Though he makes more money ($402,389 last year) than all but a handful of men in U.S. industry, he lives modestly, thriftily drives a 1955 Oldsmobile. He speaks and eats sparingly, never smokes, has a single drink of Scotch each evening (with an occasional "dividend...
Soviet propaganda has tried with some success over the years to tar the U.S. as a villain for carrying out nuclear tests and to whitewash the Soviet Union as a do-gooder for demanding a nuclear test ban. In a speech last week, Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby demolished the Soviet we're-on-the-side-of-the-angels pose. He pointed out that in October-six months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests...
...rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror his righteousness. As the day wears on, instances of man's, and even nature's ingratitude multiply. Gregg lures a diseased cat into the poorhouse grounds, and Prefect Conner orders it shot, increasing the murmurings against him. A truck loaded...