Word: pessimistically
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Clumsy but honest Theodore Dreiser, although he would not like to write himself down "as a total pessimist," and thinks Life "taken all in all, a fairly good show," has "not the faintest notion of what it is all about...
...work together all right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved all they can, send them to me. I'll take them- and how. Presidents have always been my long suit (not underwear), especially when they are senators. . . . You know the difference between the pessimist and the optimist-the pessimist thinks all girls are bad and the optimist hopes and prays they are. . . . Business is getting better and better and although it may look bad around these parts they say business in Chicago is still 'holding up'." Following the style of "Tom Thumb...
...pessimist and expect a perfectly natural improvement in business before the end of the year, but I feel like the alderman, who, confusing gondolas with rabbits, thought two gondolas were sufficient for the pond in the park...
Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...
...quiet on the Southern Front. People who say they know promise a nice little diversion in the shape of a brand new war within a comparatively few years. Mr. Mussolini, is a pessimist with no faith in human nature and with a lot of delusions about the Roman Empire which lie conceives, so Professor Binkley of Smith College reports, as never really having fallen at all but merely experiencing a temporary lapse. The great Roman of modern times, when he is not busy dodging the bullets of eight year old would-be assassins, is occupied not with idealistic notion about...