Word: optimist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...himself: "I am an optimist...
Mort's mother, on the other hand, is an intractable optimist. On this trampolin Mort was raised, an only child, soaking up skepticism and idealism, respect for creativity and contempt for show business. His father's retreat to the tobacco shop in Montreal was soon followed by a new retreat to a government clerkship in Washington, and eventually by his return to Los Angeles, this time as a clerk for the FBI. From 2½ little Mort liked to stand behind the radio and shout through it his own version of the news. At eight he hung around...
Concluded Optimist Dale: "Let us face it. Europe is vigorous and thriving, and fully with us. The Soviets have hardly made an inch in ten years in the uncommitted world, and we have made several. Perhaps we could make a few more if we would only relax, stop mourning, and keep on doing what we have been doing...
Silver Lining. In Gooding, Idaho, the state School for the Deaf and Blind got around to presenting Mrs. Ted Biddulph with her $5 prize 40 years after she had won a contest for naming the institution's monthly magazine, the Optimist...
...Walt Disney; Buena Vista), a novel for nice young ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book...