Word: samaritanism
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...Samaritan. Near Brooks, Ore., Truck Driver Ray C. Turney stopped to help a motorist in distress, had James R. Faris arrested when he recognized the stalled automobile...
...there was another side to "the Dude, "a side than won him re-election after re-election and an unshakable spot in the hearts of local citizens and constituents. This was Mickey the Good Samaritan Mickey the friend who stuck by the veterans in issues, on housing, a memorial plaque, and additional burying space at the Cambridge Cemetery. This was the "politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families...
...were rare. In World War I, to his own vast amusement, he was put on a list of dangerous people compiled by Scotland Yard. In 1942, after he had led the Malvern Conference with its sweeping social program, Cartoonist David Low (no lover of prelates) drew him as a Samaritan among the super-godly...
Last week, Good Samaritan Hospital was formally opened; already, twelve of its 70 beds were in use. In the basement were quarters for Mrs. Starr, laboratories, X-ray and fluoroscope rooms; on the first and second floors, six wards and four private rooms (maximum rate, $7 a day); two operating rooms...
...moment (because of a funds dispute affecting San Antonio's big Robert B. Green Hospital), the opening of Mrs. Starr's Good Samaritan meant that the city's Negroes have proportionately more bed space than is available to white San Antonians...