Word: pessimistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
...believe these things, then he is truly a pessimist, and is justified in joining these gentlemen in their assumption that New York is going to the dogs and that now is the time 'to sell America short...
...sounds as if this particular Cornell man had been sitting at the feet of that noted pessimist, Mr. Gil Dobie; and, if Mr. Doble has indirectly something to do with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into...
...blame the pessimist for his views? A million times has the amateur miner turned over nothing but hardship and want with his pick. But unlike the child he heeds not burnt fingers. Each adventurer believes himself the favored of the gods and forgets the laws of chance...
...concluded, "I don't like it when you say I am dissatisfied with life, and I don't like to have you say I am a pessimist. I want a retraction in tomorrow's paper...