Word: gooders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What will the world be like in X years? Lawyer Ernst's answer for 1976 (assuming no atomic war): marvelous. Incomes will be doubled, politics will be dominated by brotherhood, insanity will be on the decrease and even lawyers will join in "the search for truth." A do-gooder's weekend mirage...
...city's leading citizens gave a testimonial dinner to show McCormick how wrong he is about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...
...good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's no greater waste in the world." The reason is that Anderson does not consider himself an amateur do-gooder. He is a professional...
Other figures in Author Jarrell's comic charade: the liberal do-gooder ("To her, real life was public, what you voted at or gave for or read about in The Nation"), the European refugees who know all about America ("You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause...
Take this here M'Carthy feller, he's ketchin' skunks, lots of 'em. (They's more'n just "an eyeful"!) Maybe some folks don't like how he does it. It's noisy, smelly business. But until some one come 'long an gifts them skunks good--an' gits 'em gooder'n he does--I'm fer lettin' Joe keep right on a-huntin...