Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association, trying out the swimming pool. On his second birthday he joined the Baker Friendly Indian Club, receiving a coupstick signifying bravery in battle. On his third birthday he was initiated as the youngest GraY member in Evansville. This year he celebrated his fourth birthday by joining the Junior Optimist Club...
...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...
...pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...
...Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...