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Word: gooders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socialist Do-Gooder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Attlee] is an "objective" and ruthless man, and his behavior is typical of the Socialist do-gooder, who would sacrifice any person to his own beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Wives & a Spinster | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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