Word: samaritanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest...
...Anglican pamphlet drew most of the fire, but Father Thomas Holland, vice-superior of England's Catholic Missionary Society, had a term for the Archbishop of Canterbury too, "The Strange Samaritan." The archbishop's rebuke to Roman Catholics, noted Father Holland in the Catholic Herald, had come just after some highly sympathetic remarks by the archbishop about the plight of the church in Poland. "Against the background of the Polish persecution. The Strange Samaritan has gently poured in acid...
...symbol of Christian love as the cup of cold water; but the political, and even electoral, strings attached to such aid in Asia, in Italy, and in Berlin have robbed the gift of its virtue and induced either sycophancy or cynicism in those who receive it. The Good Samaritan did not ask to see the party card of the man he was taking...
...Samaritan. In White Plains, N.Y., James Sinkler, driving down a main street, spotted a friend being questioned by police, protested "Let him go-I'll pay his fine," could not produce his driver's license, spent the night in jail while his friend went free...
...horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined...