Word: pessimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hofer is a painter well known in America, for he was the Carnegie prize winner in 1934. An extreme pessimist, and a man deeply disturbed by the chaos of modern Europe, he fills his work with stark, dead creatures and gaunt, expressionless figures which reflect all too clearly his outlook for the future...
Like most of his coaching colleagues, Bierman is timid, diligent, a pessimist. He differs from them in being more pessimistic, working harder and exhibiting a shyness which sometimes produces an effect of megalomania. Last week, when Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Minneapolis, a civic group suggested that Bierman and the President be photographed together. Bierman refused on the grounds that foot ball and politics do not mix. He said he would not object if the President came to see him. Almost speechless in the presence of reporters, luncheon clubs and radio interviewers, he often sits up till 3 a. m. working...
...Pochapin, who displayed a line of kazoos running from ordinary noisemakers at 5? to fancy models at 50?. According to Kazooman Pochapin, his business this year has been booming as the result of political conventions, swing music and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. No pessimist, Mr. Pochapin predicts he will sell $250,000 worth of kazoos in 1936, which would be $236,000 more than he sold last year...
...confirmed pessimist as well as a distinguished, patient and learned anthropologist is Dr. Ernest Albert Hooton of Harvard University. Dr. Hooton doubts whether man's evolutionary status has improved appreciably since the end of the Glacial Ages, believes it will get worse unless "the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors" is stopped...
...party when I was a young girl--we just sat in a corner and talked. Have you read his "Mysterious Stranger?". Most people know the Mark Twain of "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Finn," but in this book is another Mark Twain, cruel, hard, and the greatest pessimist in the world...