Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...optimist by profession if not conviction, B. & O.'s Daniel Willard viewed the pressure from New York Central as definitely "constructive," observing last week: "Where competition ceased, civilization ceased...
...intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat...
...defeated, 2,370,000 to 335 shares. Apparently oblivious to the commotion he had caused, Chairman Schwab uprose to remind the stockholders: "This is our thirtieth meeting and I think we have every reason to be proud. ... In the steel business I have been known as an optimist and a dreamer for 55 years, and I have seen those dreams come true...
Almost the only optimist was Illustrator Frederic G. Cooper: "Drawings will always have a monopoly of fiction illustration. The reason is in itself a tribute to photography; the latter is too definite to be tolerated. The obvious truth of photography will not mix with the frank fictitiousness of fiction...
...Optimist. From Toronto, where he had attended the Optimists Clubs convention, flew Alex Mokher last week, bound for Florida and home. With him in the family cabin plane were his wife, his daughters Marjorie, 16. Dorothy, 9. Over Lexington, Ky., Father Mokher lost his bearings, decided to ask directions. Circling low over a country store, he slowed his motor, shouted to the proprietor. To hear better he circled lower, grazed a tree, struck some telephone wires, crashed. Of the Mokhers only Dorothy survived...