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Word: samaritan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briskly, young Black Mustache stepped from his car, peeled off coat, rolled up sleeves, fiddled with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Rampant Lion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...spoke ignorantly of the "parable" of the Widow's Mite. TIME showed just as profound ignorance [Sept. 26] when she corrected Mr. A. F. Higgins' misquotation of Scripture in a footnote, but failed to correct Mr. Higgins' second Scripture reference. "PornoGraphic" can humbly pray with the Samaritan: "Oh, Lord, be merciful to me a Samaritan," and his words were "God, be merciful to me a Sinner." Nor is this the first occasion that TIME has shown ignorance of Scripture. However, I will not burden you here with other incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...least, the "PornoGraphic" can humbly pray with the Samaritan "Oh, Lord be merciful to me a Sinner." TIME, the Pharisee, cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Docile, stupid, Mae Jordan has toiled, swept. Last week, one Dr. Peter Rusk, kindly Samaritan, chiropractor, discovered the conditions of Mae's slavery, called upon Klein and Platz, blacked Mr. Klein's eye, punched Mr. Platz's midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Klein, Platz | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that she had been born in 1839, that her father had been a teacher of swimming, that she herself had taught for many years in the Samaritan Baths in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Roubaix | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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