Word: goodheartedness
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The scope of that plan was suggested in The Case of Sergeant Grischa. A goodhearted, simple Russian soldier, Grischa escaped from a German prison camp, hid in the woods, took the clothes and identity of a dead German deserter. He was caught and sentenced to be shot for desertion. Grischa...
¶An old woman, hearing the young people talk revolution, and understanding only that "they" (the Communists) are goodhearted, will take care of everybody, gets her old cronies together, makes a revolutionary flag to send "them."
Victor Luth, a goodhearted, 65-year-old real estate operator, had a painful, recurring dream. "I dream I am hurrying down a street," he told his brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I...
The whole Fury family is dragged into the whirlpool. Old Denny Fury suddenly deserts his family, goes to sea again. Maureen Fury Kilkey frees her goodhearted, ugly husband from the debt with money she gets from an old admirer, then disappears. Desmond Fury, an ambitious, unscrupulous labor leader, detaches himself...
Marc adores her like a dog; he is sensitive, goodhearted, naive. Before long Isabelle finds herself becoming very fond of him. But the crowd that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad...