Word: samaritanism
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...Samaritan Shortage...
...that was not enough, Münemann himself last month began buying what Germans call die Perlen-the pearls -among Stinnes' manufacturing companies, notably the machinery and plastics producers. Brash and brainy Banker Münemann is playing an unaccustomed role as rescuer, and not entirely as a Samaritan; he is making some good buys for himself at distress prices. Nonetheless, his intervention may at least leave Stinnes enough to retire to-and enough to please the creditors-if Stinnes' lawsuit can be favorably settled...
Later during the time of Alexander the Great, the Samaritans, a dissident religious sect, tried to make the city the rival of Jerusalem. (The Samaritans believed that Mt. Gerasim, rather than the sacred hill of Jerusalem, was the mountain where God first entered into covenant agreement with his people.) Shochem's final destruction occurred about 107 B.C., when the Samaritan capital was destroyed by John Hyrcanus, high priest and prince of the Judeans in Jerusalem...
...pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S. embassy for a visa...